This is how the proposed VIP area (the Foredeck Club as ACM said) for the Americas Cup will look when it is finished.

The stylized and linear design with a lot of glass as well as wide terraces was conceived by David Chipperfield and Fermin Vazquez, and will also include a parking area for 800 cars.

It will also have a large esplanade and is expected to be completed by 2006.

The Chipperfield/Vazquez design was the only one out of the total of eight submitted design projects to achieve a rating of 65 points from the Americas Cup Consortium, which reached its decision on Thursday evening, but whose deliberations were only made public yesterday by Valencia Mayoress Rita Barbera.