Finland will attempt to capture the ideas of freedom, creativity, innovation, community, health and nature in its pavilion and exhibition.

Shaped like a "kirmu," a Finnish word for a rocky hollow formed naturally along the sea?shore, the six-story pavilion will look like a huge white bowl surrounded by a lake. It will contain a restaurant.

Six pillars will support the bottom of the "bowl," and the building will appear to be float?ing on water.

The Finnish Government has allocated more than 14 million euros (US$18 million) for its participation in Expo 2010.

(www.expo2010china.com)