Continuing our look at some of the best pavilions at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, we tip our hats to Canada, for producing one of the most entertaining.

Who’d have thought the normally conservative Canadians would hand over the design of their pavilion to a circus?

World famous Cirque Du Soleil, the acrobatic theater troupe, designed this giant letter ‘C’ over three floors to convey the Canadian values of ‘inclusivity, sustainability, and creativity’.

Multimedia plays a key role in this pavilion with a dazzling array of interactive screens and projections bringing the place to life during the day and, particularly, at night. Comprised of 4000 m2 of Canadian red cedar, it’s one of the biggest pavilions on show.

Throw in more 165 dancers, musicians, artists and actors and five special performances by Cirque du Soleil and you have one of the best party pavilions in Shanghai.

Feel free to compare it to the dull and ugly US pavilion.

See more shots below.

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For the first time ever, Copenhagen’s famous Little Mermaid statue has left Denmark for its new, albeit temporary home, at the Shanghai Expo 2010.

It is to be the center piece at the striking Danish pavilion at the Expo, which is home to some of the most interesting and cutting edge architectural designs from almost 200 nations.

See a video of the the Little Mermaid’s unveiling at the pavilion after the jump.

The Little Mermaid takes pride of place in the ‘Welfairytales’ pavilion, an interactive pavilion designed  by architecture firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). The pavilion sets out to give visitors a glimpse into life in Denmark by including things like the city bike, the harbour bath, rooftop picnics and a chance, of course, to see the original, statue of H. C. Anderson’s Little Mermaid.

To top it off there are 300 free bikes for visitors to use while inside the traffic loop pavilion.

The Danish pavilion may not have the ‘out-there’ appeal of the UK’s ‘Seed Cathedral’ but it’s proving a hit with the visitors. More shots below.

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