Architecture Update: Expo on the North Circular

HERALDED as a showpiece of British imagination and flair, and costing the taxpayer around pounds 20m, the British Expo Pavilion, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw and built in Seville last year, looks set to be rebuilt on an old rubbish dump on the North Circular Road in London.

The spectacular pavilion - a latter-day crystal palace in steel and glass the size of Westminster Abbey - has been bought by a businessman who plans to use it as the headquarters of AsianSky Television, a new satellite station.

Richard Buckley, a Brent councillor and member of Brent Regeneration Agency, helped put the bid together. 'It is a building that catches the imagination,' he said.

What is not known is how the new owner, Sharand Patel, plans to take down the pavilion and rebuild it, for the architects - as is always the case - own the copyright to the drawings and have not, so far, been consulted on the building's new home.