[STEVE G.]

Originally Posted by STEVE G.

Elliptic City: Independent Financial Centre of the Americas.
French Architect Bernard Tschumi is responsible for Switzerland's entry at the Biennale. His proposal, Elliptic City: Independent Financial Center of the Americas, explores the real and mythical qualities of a project for a large island in the Caribbean where nature and finance merge in an unexpected manner. It is a flexible design of buildings and gardens ready to accommodate a range of activities, from a business center to a hotel, an ocean club, and shopping areas, among others. The exhibition shows unusual interactions between local ecological strategies and global banking plans on a world scale. An array of bright images, a large model, and a music video display accessible to a large audience argue for the simultaneously local and global dimension of architecture today ...

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