Vancouver's Hong Kong-style supermodern aesthetic : the architecture and public art of the Concord Pacific Place urban mega-project.
| dc.contributor.author | Hubregtse, Menno Jacobus Stuart | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Thomas, Christopher A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-07T18:37:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-04-07T18:37:40Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2008 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-04-07T18:37:40Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Dept. of History in Art | en |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Concord Pacific Place, a glass wall of tall, thin condominium towers lining the north shore of Vancouver's False Creek, is an urban mega-project being developed on the former Expo '86 lands sold to Hong Kong property magnate Li Ka-shing in 1988. This study examines the local, provincial. federal. and Hong Kong-based cultural, economic, social, and political conditions implicated in the production of Concord Pacific Place and how the mega-project's architecture and artworks refer to these conditions. This thesis argues that Concord Pacific espoused a high-tech self-image as a strategy to challenge the local perception of the mega-project as a Hong Kong-funded development for Hong Kong buyers. This study illustrates how the site's Supermodern architecture and some of its artworks overtly emphasize that the space is a high-tech community and also subtly allude to Chinese transnationality by using inconspicuous references intended to be detected only by Concord Pacific's Hong Kong consumers. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2487 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en |
| dc.subject | Vancouver, B.C. | en |
| dc.subject | Condominiums | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Communication and the Arts::Architecture | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Communication and the Arts::Art | en |
| dc.title | Vancouver's Hong Kong-style supermodern aesthetic : the architecture and public art of the Concord Pacific Place urban mega-project. | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |