The theme driven exhibit strategy lends itself to this new kind of importation of meaning and association. The Zoo not only uses architecture to create interesting, animal-stimulating environments that reflect their lost nature, it is making people- stimulating attractions that transport the viewer to an artificial nature. The Zoo uses regional- or vernacular- associated architecture to generate relationships with real places in the world. The meaning associated with the architecture creates the spectacle that assists the transportation. The animals reinforce the spectacle, which reinforces the architecture in an endless vice versa . Both the China project and Tropical Asia represent a new kind of import and export of architectural ideas. Global clients demand architecture that can transform and transport a location through its inherent meanings and associations. Architecture is being used to create spectacle and transform both location and visitor. As the world becomes smaller and geography breaks down architecture is being used to (re) create new worlds within the real one.
Peter Osborne is a graduate of Dalhousie Uni- versity and is currently an intern architect at Graham Edmunds Cartier.
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