MANUEL G. NOGUEIRA / ARCHITECT
In fairytales, the wolf is the symbol of hidden sin. Nowadays, banks can be interpreted as the antagonistic wolf dressed up as a sheep to sneak upon its citizens. The HSBC propaganda of ‘connection and prosperity’ is corrupted by money laundering scandals. It´s corporate image will be changed into an apple, symbolizing health and sin.
A 5 km linear apple plantation will border Tower Hamlets ( a London borough with a 33% percent of Bangladeshi population) connecting Olympic site and Millennium Dome legacies.
HSBC bank will provide a framework for local community to allow businesses to prosper inspired by his adverts. The proposal is a basic economic teaching center for women with additional banking facilities. Every winter the teaching is suspended in order to cook chutney (a traditional Bangladeshi dish) from the imported apples. The chutney will be stored until the festival “Boishakhi Mela” takes place, the largest Bangladeshi festival in Europe.
`Apple Hamlets´
Women Economic Independence
The wolf and the forest represent unknown hidden desires and very serious danger.
Sin and goodness had always been in balance to support an economic prosperity.
Money is the Eva ́s bitten Apple. The big enterprisers that supply the sin are banks. Wolfs with lambskin playing with society.
From all banks involved in scandals and debts, HSBC is the most prominent. Money laundring contrast with a propaganda that reinforce the develop of small business paying close attention to the women economic development
The main urban strategy will consist in reflect the HSBC meesage of connection and prosperity through a linear apple orchard conecting London Olympic Site with the Millenium Dome culminating in a bigger apple tree ́s plantation and a "collector" building.
Ones a year the apples will be picked and storage in the economic center. During the cold months, November, December and January the apples will be cooked by this women into apple chutney (a traditional Indian and Bangladesh dish).
The Building will also provide Basic Economic and English teaching, banking facilities and a accessible Nursery school for for Bangladeshi women of Tower Hamlets and their children.
