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11.11.2002, Ada wins an Oscar!
Ada’s spectacular success three weeks after the closure of the Expo: the film «Brainworkers» telling about the Expo project of the University and ETH Zurich has won the EDI, the Swiss Commercial Film Award, in four categories. The film was qualified as "motivating, multifacetted, poetic, diversified and stimulating the grey cells. An interesting symbiosis of information and entertainment"...
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21.10.2002, Disassembly started
Only yesterday were the arteplages full to the rafters: on the last day Expo.02 received 181'996 visitors in total.
Spooky desertedness is reigning today. Only the builders are already working again. They load trees on a fork-lift truck, pull cables from the lake and dismantle the floor plates from the platform. Small trucks and building machines have taken over the Expo area, piles of rubbish are towering to the sky, and an icy wind is whistling over the lake...
What about Ada? – Ada is sleeping. And as she is sleeping calmly, her intelligence self is being carried away piece for piece.


20.10.2002, Ada says goodbye...
Expo.02 closes its doors forever on Sunday, after a splendid celebration – yet it will remain in the memories of the Swiss. The impressions of this very last day of the Expo will also be preserved at the Ada web page.
At 8:30 p.m. the last hour will strike for Ada, too. Meanwhile, Ada says goodbye to her numerous fans: her future remains unknown so far...


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