It looks like some kind of a computer-generated subatomic particle visualisation, but no. In fact, this thing is huge and very tangible. You can even get inside.
Looking like an English hedgehog with over 60,000 7.5m-long transparent acrylic rods shooting out of the building, the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo is costing the equivalent of $US38.6 million to construct.