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It is Still Extracting

GSAPP, Columbia University     Instructor: CRUZ GARCIA & NATHALIE FRANKOWSKI     June 2021 - July 2022

A great loudreading is happening in the Asian Building. Its full name is Asiatic Petroleum Building, used to be the Shanghai office of Shell oil company. It went through war, revolution and opening-up in China. Now some parts of Asian Building are exhibition spaces and others belong to China Pacific Insurance, a company providing automobile insurance. Somehow, Asian Building always connects to oil.

Shell left Asian Building, but that doesn’t mean it stops extraction. The simple truth is that it has been happening everywhere around the world and created numerous environmental problems. So we do a loudreading here, to let the public be aware that extraction is still happening, causing more problems.

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