Image 6 of 23 from gallery of Floating Pavilion / Bruno Rossi Arquitetos. Photograph by André Scarpa

Image 19 of 45 from gallery of Floating Pavilion / Shen Ting Tseng architects. Courtesy of ShenTingTseng Architect

Shen Ting Tseng Architects created a canopy made from 300 box kites, which move with the wind and appear to lift this pavilion in Taipei off the ground.

Located on the Expo’s main street Decumano, the Russia Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015 by Moscow-base architecture studio SPEECH is a 3,260 square meter building which features a 30-meter long floating entrance canopy with a curving mirrored underside and a roof garden.

Completed in 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. Images by Shawn Liu . “Floating” was a temporal architecture exhibited in the TFAM plaza which lasted for three months. The plaza is situated on the edge of urban center,...

Sou Fujimoto Architects | Hangzhou, China | "The design was inspired by the site itself, especially the fog and clouds that diffused over the village. They were like buildings floating in the air, or rather, like roofs connecting nature, buildings, and various sceneries around. The continuing terraced fields created an architectural image and made the whole area very dynamic and vivid. Therefore, we proposed a floating canopy just like a cloud, hugging the landscape and being part of it."

Image 32 of 45 from gallery of Floating Pavilion / Shen Ting Tseng architects. Courtesy of ShenTingTseng Architect

Image 8 of 24 from gallery of The Canopy Spatial Installation / ETH Zurich. Photograph by Shuaizhong Wang & Ueli Oskar

Image 18 of 45 from gallery of Floating Pavilion / Shen Ting Tseng architects. Photograph by Shawn Liu