the photovoltaic power plant surrounded by grey asphalt
The area, however, is now a city of architectural ghosts, an abandoned site only in use for anual events like concerts and festivals. The Forum is less a park than a huge parking-space like concrete-desert - the antipode of green urban design: asphalt surfacse replace brownfield land.
Ironically, the site is the favored background of car campaigns: it makes car look green - without green.
Auditorium Park at the Forum of International Cultures, Barcelona, 2004
Design: Foreign Office Architects, Who want to sit on these benches?
Postcard from the BMW shop at the BMW Welt München