UK at World Expo 2025
Osaka, Kansai
13 April – 13 October 2025, Yumeshima Island, Japan
Our Contributors
Contibutors who have supported the UK at World Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai.
Brand Partners
Burleigh Pottery
Burleigh Pottery, founded in 1851, is a luxury ceramics manufacturer, proudly producing each and every piece in the heart of England at its historic home, Middleport Pottery, since 1889. Committed to preserving traditional craftsmanship, Burleigh is the last company in the world to use the historic technique of underglaze tissue transfer printing. This dedication to heritage and quality has ensured that Burleigh remains in high demand globally, with exports playing a crucial role in its story for over 170 years. Among its most significant international markets, Japan has become an integral part of Burleigh’s global presence.
Standing alongside other brands synonymous with British culture at Expo 2025 is a great privilege for the dedicated team at Burleigh. Their unwavering commitment to protecting craftsmanship and maintaining the highest standards of quality continues to define the company’s success.
Website link: www.burleigh.co.uk/
Core Contributors
ES GLOBAL
ES GLOBAL is a leading contractor for major events and projects worldwide, designing and delivering relocatable architecture and structures. Its Global Modular System, used for the UK Pavilion, enables key building elements to be relocated with minimal resources.
ES GLOBAL has played a pivotal role in global high-profile events, from Live Aid and the London 2012 and Paris 2024 Olympics to Expo 2025 Osaka, where it is delivering the UK, Australia, Canada, and USA pavilions. With an established Japanese office, ES GLOBAL is expanding its presence in the region, leveraging its expertise for future projects and long-term growth.
Website link: es.global
Immersive International, a leading Experiential Masterplanning Studio, has collaborated with the UK Government in the past two years to craft a visionary UK Pavilion experience that celebrates the UK's identity as a hotbed for innovation. Our global team of designers, storytellers, architects, and technologists has created a fully immersive, sustainable and accessible pavilion.
Through experiential design, interactive storytelling and cutting-edge projection mapping, we deliver a content-led journey that excites, inspires, and opens doors to new opportunities. Visitors are invited to connect, engage, and explore the limitless potential of collaborating with the UK - where creativity and innovation shape the future.
Website link: www.immersive.international
Immersive International
Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company founded in 1946 in northwest England with over 22,000 people across 60 countries. Providing services across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources sectors we specialise in major programmes, projects, cost and commercial management, net zero and digital solutions around the world. Turner & Townsend leveraged its global footprint to support the Department for Business and Trade with the international delivery of the UK Pavilion including its design and component fabrication in the UK and assembly in situ with local and international suppliers from our Osaka and Tokyo offices in Japan.
Website link: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Bray Leino Events is the home of brand experience, and we are proud to bring our decades of expertise to Expo 2025 Osaka. With experience at Expos in Milan and Dubai, we are the primary partner to the UK government - responsible for the full operational delivery of UK pavilion. We are a global company that creates high-impact events and experiences around the world, engaging audiences and creating lasting memories. We are excited to celebrate our shared history with Japan and to bring UK culture, innovation, and achievement to life at Expo 2025.
Website link: www.brayleino.co.uk
Bray Leino
Supporting Contributors
Ipsos, a leading global research and evaluation firm operating in 90 countries with a team of over 17,000, is partnering with the UK Government at Expo 2025 in Osaka. Ipsos will deliver monitoring and evaluation services throughout the UK Pavilion delivery period, using a robust theory-based and impact evaluation methodology. This approach will provide the UK Government with insights to inform its presence at Osaka and deliver robust evidence to assess the impact and effectiveness of the UK’s participation at Expo 2025. The evaluation will also identify key learnings to inform future large-scale events.
Website link: www.ipsos.com
Ipsos
WOO
Architects
WOO is renowned for designing great experiences for sporting and cultural events and venues. Its work seamlessly blends innovation and storytelling to create lasting memories while simultaneously delivering venues and spaces that support the needs of visitors, owners and operators. Since leading the design for the London 2012 Olympics, WOO has devised transformative approaches to global events including the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games where it delivered on nine venues. Its portfolio extends to community-focused projects including London’s BBC Earth Experience at Earls Court, Birmingham’s Edgbaston and Hudayriat sports masterplans and the UK pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.
Website link: www.wooarchitects.com
At Beyond Limits, we are proud to play a major role at Expo 2025 Osaka, bringing our unmatched Expo expertise to the UK Pavilion. With a track record spanning Expo 2015 Milan, Expo 2017 Astana, and Expo 2020 Dubai, we have successfully delivered architecture, construction supervision, exhibition production, AV content, and operations for over 100 Participating Countries. Currently one of the most awarded PMC firms at Expo 2025, we provide seamless project management consultancy in construction and operations, from pre-Expo planning to on-site execution and post-event legacy. Beyond Limits is committed to making the UK Pavilion a standout experience at Expo 2025.
Website link: www.expobeyondlimits.com
Beyond Limits
Living Hospitality
Living Hospitality, the sister company of renowned British caterer Mosimann’s, is thrilled to be the official catering provider for five national pavilions–UK, Switzerland, Kuwait, USA, and Canada–at Expo 2025 in Osaka. With extensive experience catering at global events like the Olympics, World Expos, the 2022 FIFA World Cup, WEF, Monaco Grand Prix, and Cannes Lions, Living Hospitality is set to deliver exceptional dining experiences. From 13 April to 13 October 2025, their expert team will collaborate with each pavilion to offer exceptional culinary experiences that reflect each nation’s unique flavours and traditions, with a distinct Japanese twist. Living Hospitality looks forward to showcasing its expertise and delivering unforgettable dining experiences to guests from around the world.
Website link: livinghospitality.co.uk
Fira crafts beautiful spaces placing people and nature at their core. Fira aimed to design a landscape for the UK Pavilion that was a natural testament to the deep-rooted connection between the UK and Japan. Collaborating with Japan based garden designer Mark Chapman, Fira created an inspiring and tranquil setting, reflecting the essence of the British landscape. The scheme blends natural beauty with simplicity, offering visitors a serene and immersive experience. Highlighting both nations shared appreciation for nature, whilst reinforcing the UK Pavilion’s commitment to sustainability, culture, harmony, and relaxation; the landscape invites visitors to explore, connect, and be inspired.
Website link: www.fira-la.com
Fira
Liberty Wallpaper and Fabrics
Ottoman Spot
Inspired by a 19th century artwork discovered in the Liberty archive, the Liberty Design Studio have reimagined Ottoman Spot for contemporary appeal. Appearing on an elegant mixed-fibre, cut-pile velvet, this design beautifully contrasts with the collection’s most intricate floral designs. Luxurious in feel and vibrant in colour, this tactile cotton fabric contains a percentage of polyester for added durability and softness. Suitable for heavy domestic and severe contract use, Ottoman Spot is perfect for creating heavy upholstery, drapery, cushions, and accessories.
Thorpe House
Thorpe House is a timeless homage to artist John Hall Thorpe, whose paintings from the early 1900s inspired this design. Reminiscent of Liberty’s 1930s florals prints, the Tana Lawn™ cotton classic, Thorpe, was skilfully created as a colourful, repeating design by the Liberty design studio in 1968. Now reimagined for the home, Thorpe House has been redrawn to a larger, more playful scale offering an interplay of pattern and form suited to modern spaces.
Feather Petals
An adaptation of one of Liberty’s most versatile classics, Feather Petals’ all-over print is reminiscent of the 1930s style of Liberty designs. Reimagined by the design studio into a sophisticated and minimalist two-tone print, this design is ideal for contemporary living spaces.
Park Stripe
Park Stripe is a beautifully refined stripe design derived from House Florals’ Art Stripe. Offered in five sophisticated colourways, this two-tone vertical stripe mirrors Liberty’s signature colour palette. Park Stripe elevates the atmosphere of any space.
Regent Stripe
Inspired by Art Stripe’s timeless composition, Regent Stripe pays homage to an era of grace and style, infusing contemporary living spaces with a touch of sophistication. With a selection of thin vertical stripes coloured in a tonal spectrum, crafted to create an illusion of light and dark, Regent Stripe seamlessly blends 1920s elegance with a modern aesthetic for a refined atmosphere.
Wiltshire Blossom
Wiltshire Blossom is a contemporary reworking of an iconic 1933 leaf-and-berry Liberty print. Carefully repainted and re-engineered for House Florals, this contemporary furnishing fabric design provides beautiful tactility and clarity of print mark for a timeless and elegant feel.
Grand Thorpe
In honour of 150 years of Liberty, the Tana Lawn™ cotton classic, Thorpe, has been dramatically enlarged for a larger, abstracted interpretation of the original 1968 artwork. Offering a bold take on its intricate meadow-like beauty, Grand Thorpe transforms the familiar into the extraordinary. The design’s large-scale florals evoke a painterly elegance, creating a striking visual narrative that retains the nostalgic charm of the original while embracing modernity. Crafted from Tana Reborn Eve, an innovative approach to transforming surplus fabrics, Grand Thorpe is printed on a 20% recycled cotton suitable for drapery and cushions.
Enchanted Wood
A panoramic voyage across an imagined landscape, this captivating design was inspired by the book ‘Around the World in 80 Trees’ by Jonathan Drori. Hand-painted in the Liberty Design Studio in a painting style inspired by miniature Indian garden paintings, Enchanted Wood has stylised trees from all over the world including Maple, Cypress, Willow, Orange, and Pear. Weaving through these lush woodlands are meandering streams, delicate grass and even an imagined Liberty floral tree.
Botanical Stripe
Hand-painted in the Liberty design studio, Botanical Stripe is a signature artwork of the Floribunda collection, celebrating the historic tradition of botanical illustration in Britain. Botanical Stripe is printed using a fine mesh gravure technique, bringing to life the soft painterly nature of the motifs. Matte and metallic pigments are layered in varied degrees of tonality to create a subtle luminescence, reminiscent of Victorian cyanotypes.