Santiago de Chile | Two Tales
August 2nd, 2010 • cities, contributors, movingmemos, travel • no comments
Alejandro Aravena & Ricky Burdett | London School of Economics | by Levent Kerimol
While in Chile, MovingCities sporadic contributor Levent Kerimol visited the much acclaimed Elemental’s La Pintana and Lo Espejo housing projects and scanned Ciudad Abierta – Valparaiso University’s architectural playground (dixit Diego Grass Puga). Levent files a report and tells two tales of how an architect’s attempts to change the world are obstructed by his ego. Read more »
Beijing | Gulou Hutong(s)
July 21st, 2010 • cities, movingmemos • 1 comment
Area around Gulou Dajie subway station | May 20, 2010
A short trip down the metropolitan memory lane: in 2008 we published Making Minced Meat out of Memory [MONU Magazine] and in 2009 our Hutong Histories-triptych [ 1, 2 & 3]. It’s 2010 and the destruction of the Gulou area is still going strong. These days D+STREAM picks up Hutong Cemeteries; the New York Times reports on it [same old, same old] and MovingCities revisits the Gulou area. Read more »
Beijing | Do You Hutong?
July 15th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos • no comments
Lumicang Hutong | Beijing, July 5, 2010
Do You Hutong? [看！胡同] – upcoming Saturday, July 17 from 19:00 to 23:00, at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre – is a fund-raising event hosted by the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center (CHP). The eve will blend cultural heritage, art, dialogue and interpretation. Our distant contribution to support awareness around this subject is our yearly coverage of the current debate and some snapshots. MovingCities features the Lumicang Hutong. Read more »
Beijing | SOHO Sanlitun & skyline
July 14th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos • no comments
SOHO Sanlitun by Kengo Kuma | April 26, 2010
During the past few months MovingCities was a couple of times in Beijing [北京]. As we did not keep up the pace of posting, this week we present a selection of past impressions centered around our favorite Beijing topics: hutong(s), highways, hyperblocks and skylines. We lift off with some rooftop-views on Kengo Kuma‘s recently completed Sanlitun SOHO-project [三里屯SOHO官方网站]. Read more »
Shenzhen | highway snapshots
July 8th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos • no comments
Shenzhen | June 28, 2010
A quick glimpse of Shenzhen (深圳) while driving from the West to the East, from the OCT Art & Design Gallery to the Vanke Center.
Related news & readings: ‘Shenzhen house prices hamper growth‘, ‘Shenzhen Stock Exchange Tops Out‘, ‘Shenzhen Low Carbon City‘(pdf alert!), and ‘Shenzhen ups property controls‘. Read more »
Shenzhen | Vanke Center by Steven Holl
July 5th, 2010 • architectures, movingmemos • 2 comments
Vanke Center by Steven Holl Architects | June 28, 2010
While in Shenzhen (深圳) last week, MovingCities – along with Ole Bouman [director NAi] – paid a visit to Steven Holl’s Vanke Center. We were there last December to attend the opening of the “URBANISMS Steven Holl + Li Hu: 4 Projects in China“-exhibit [see previous post]. This time around no images of models and masses, instead, snapshots from the inside. Read more »
Shanghai >> Jiading >> Shanghai
July 2nd, 2010 • movingmemos, travel • no comments
Shanghai - Jiading | July 1, 2010
July 1st was the hottest day this year in Shanghai (上海 ) so far, as the mercury in the metropolis showed us 37.4 degrees. MovingCities escaped the heatwave and searched for a breeze in the suburbs. Accompanied by architect Chen Yifeng | 陈屹峰 [Atelier Deshaus | 大舍] we visited the recently completed Kindergarten – opening September 1 – in Jiading New City (嘉定区). Snapshots and background. Read more »
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