The Shanghai Expo, which will run from May to October 2010, is set to be the largest yet. It will bring the world together for a global conversation about some of the most profound common challenges we face. The Expo will provide an opportunity to showcase the scope of the UK’s creative talent to the Chinese and 140 other countries taking part in the event.

The six finalists, selected from over 40 of Europe’s top designers, have been tasked with designing a structure that responds to the theme of the 2010 Expo: ‘Better City, Better Life’. The six teams are:

Marks Barfield Architects (creators of the London Eye) / Imagination Limited / Price & Myers Consulting Engineers / Arup.

Heatherwick Studio / CassonMann / Adams Kara Taylor / Atelier Ten 

Avery Associates (designers of London’s BFI IMAX cinema) & Sidell Gibson / Event Communications / Fulcrum Consulting / Adams Kara Taylor / DHA Design Services / William Pye / Clyde Malby

Draw Architects & dcmstudios / Graven Images / Over Arup & Partners Ltd / Arup International Consultants (Shanghai)/ Botanical Society of Scotland

John McAslan + Partners / Brisac Gonzales / Carmody Groarke / NordArchitecture / Project Orange / Surface Architects / Wordsearch / Arup

Zaha Hadid Architects (the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture) / Arup / Metstudio / Architectural Association School of Architecture Curatorial Projects.