Hubregtse, Menno Jacobus Stuart2010-04-072010-04-0720082010-04-07http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2487Concord 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.enAvailable to the World Wide WebVancouver, B.C.CondominiumsUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Communication and the Arts::ArchitectureUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Communication and the Arts::ArtThesis