""Vodka Pool"" Commerce Court West, Lobby, Artist: Dan Mihaltianu. A large, portable reflecting pool situated on the pristine Bank-Taj-Mahal floor, filled with 80-proof vodka. Intoxicating, like the accumulation of riches; evaporating, like the current global economic environment; alchemical, like the exchange of currencies and the transference of economy; toxic, like the black market of war and phamaceuticals.‹›
Commerce Court West

I. M. Pei

Interior · Toronto, Canada · 1972

Photo: Randolph Croft · Taken on 3 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 726×1000

""Vodka Pool"" Commerce Court West, Lobby, Artist: Dan Mihaltianu. A large, portable reflecting pool situated on the pristine Bank-Taj-Mahal floor, filled with 80-proof vodka. Intoxicating, like the accumulation of riches; evaporating, like the current global economic environment; alchemical, like the exchange of currencies and the transference of economy; toxic, like the black market of war and phamaceuticals.

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