A number of buildings were completed for the occasion. Notably,
Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station was completed in 1912 in time for the exposition, and was situated opposite the new hotel, Flandria Palace. A park, Citadelpark, was redesigned for the fair. The exposition was held on an area of , which was larger than
Expo 58 in Brussels. Various Belgian cities had a pavilion and an artificial town, called "Oud Vlaenderen" (Old Flanders) was created.
The four sons of Aymon statue, depicting Reinout, Adelaert, Ritsaert and Writsaert on their horse,
Beyaert, was erected on the central approach avenue to the exposition. In preparation for the exhibition, renovations were made in the centre of Ghent, including a large number of houses on the
Graslei. Some years before, the
neo-gothic St Michael's Bridge had been built to provide visitors to the exhibition with a vantage point to view the town, the post office and the
Korenmarkt (
Cornmarket) had been built, and the carved heads now arrayed around it represented the rulers who attended the exhibition (including
Florence Nightingale). During the fair, an international conference on urban planning was held, organised by
Paul Saintenoy,
Emile Vinck, and
Paul Otlet. Greek confectionery maker
Leonidas Kestekides attended the fair, and then settled permanently in Belgium and founded the
Leonidas chocolate company. In the last of such type of
human zoo stagings, part of a group of 53
Igorot tribesmen from
Bontoc, Mountain Province, 28-year-old
Filipino Timicheg was "displayed" and died here of
tuberculosis or
flu. A tunnel in the
Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station renovation project is named after him. ==Participants==