no, it needs to refer to people. Maybe a reference to all the future students and scientists from all over the world, where there used to be two monosyllabic farmers before?

Perhaps?

Not a single mention of students, other countries or anything. Huh, maybe the area is just known to be international; I'll ask the client to make sure.

does it refer to the architecture of the place? a sort of style potpourri?

Aber "Sprachgewirr" kann (bzw. darf) sich, wie spinatwachtel schon geschrieben hat, nur auf Sprache beziehen, also auf Menschen. Oder Schilder?

CMDD: Germans probably do not remember their image of Babel derives from the bible - or maybe they do, there is a large exhibition in Berlin at the moment which shows "the real" Babel as compared to the myth - but I think Englisch native speakers would be more inclined to think of the biblical judgement.

Agree with spinach, they are probably refering to the bable and exitement of the stutents and teachers from all over the world that they hope we come work there.

Is there a positive multicultural saying in English which might apply better?

CM2DD, OT: I don't even know why I respond...you deserve to have this thread sink into obscurity whilst all of Leo is multi-slacking in your other thread, condensing their many frustrations as translators into moderately witty dictionary entries.
Must dash, have just thought of another one.

Wait, have just found a mention of international scientists! Still, confusion doesn't sound like the kind of image I'd want to project in this context. Is the German used in a positive way, with no connection to people failing to understand each other as God's punishment for them getting too cheeky?

Ja, CM2DD, CJ schon angedeutet hat, wird das im Deutschen auch positiv verwendet, im Sinne von "Wow, kuck mal, wie viele Sprachen hier gesprochen werden", nicht im Sinne der biblischen Strafe.

*slinkingintoputadinstudent*

melting pot perhaps?

...wie CJ schon angedeutet hat...

pursuit of science in a latter-day Babylon...

or so

OK, thanks! That's really helpful.

Not to be a wet blanket or anything, but does Babylon really have any figurative connection to language at all in English?

Yes, there's the Tower of Babel, the figurative place with many languages from the biblical story. (And yes, the connotation in English is usually negative: confusion, babbling.)

Babylon, in contrast, is the name of the ancient geographical region. But for me at least, that word doesn't call up any association with language(s) at all.

Not that that helps solve the translation question, I realize, sorry ...

I made it into a symphony of languages in the end :-)