After being a finalist in the UK journal Architectural Review's Emerging Architecture competition (1999) Marco Casagrande and his then partner Sami Rintala were invited to the Venice Biennial 2000.
Poté, co byl finalistou soutěže Emerging UK časopisu Architectural Review (1999), byl se svým partnerem Sami Rintalou pozván na Benátské bienále 2000.