Turin, Piazza della Repubblica, also called Porta Palazzo, is a crossroads of different cultures and ethnic groups. It is a gigantic port for pieces of merchandise that are brought in, exchanged, and sold by Italians, African, Arabs, Chinese, South Americans, and Russians. There are smells, odours, perfumes, colours, and spices. There are pieces of poverty, rage, joy, death, and hope. There is a sound mix of pieces of music, rhythms, and voices in the air. There are prayer chants and the cries of fruit and vegetable vendors. This is Porto Palazzo. Across from the antique window in front of the covered market, there is a forty-metre high building crane with a forty-metre arm. It is transformed in the night into an illuminated light-blue monochromatic sign – “The Christmas Crane”. It is loaded with 88,000 Chinese light bulbs and holds a fishing boat from its hook. At its poop, a net is being cast through into the air. This net of micro-light bulbs catches five stars and a sea comet in the city night. In the dark the crane takes on form like a gigantic erector set, lighting itself up by predetermined and random bit. The boat, fishing net, and stars seem to be drawn in the air, in the dark, by an invisible hand. At the prow of the boat, two lamps are placed on the top of two seven-metre-high antennas. They seem to be the eyes and long eyelashes of a mysterious fisherman. The Christmas Crane was suggested as a symbol of transformation in connection with the urban and architectural renewal project for the Porta Palazzo district. There is a complementary project – the decorative painting of a city bus: a prehistoric aquarium, moving through the city in the skies of the galaxy.