China Pavilion for Expo 2010 Shanghai is designed with peculiar style and special structural system. The main structure is composed of four concrete tubes with steel-concrete composite floors. It is designed with a shape of inverted trapezoid in elevation. The fundamental vibration mode of this structure is a torsional mode due to the special shape with greater moment of inertia in upper floor

which exceeds the limit value stipulated in Chinese code. The seismic analysis of prototype is carried out by ANSYS program to evaluate its overall seismic performance and improve the structural design. At the same time

shaking table tests of a 1/27-scale structural model are conducted. It is faund that although the first mode is torsional

the torsional responses are not so large

which agrees well with the results of shaking table tests. Both the test results and calculation results demonstrate that the designed structural system satisfies the seismic damage patterns and meets the pre-defined performance objectives. Based on the test results

suggestions for improving design are also put forward.