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Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "SOHO China's New Futurism" on the ArtForum Chinese website. A short overview of past, present and future ambition of Beijing's biggest real-estate developers.

Big on concept, the QingPu Thumb Island by MADA s.p.a.m., lies in the middle of an artificial lake an hour outside Shanghai. We've all seen the 'wavy-roof-becomes-landscape' idea before, however several bizarre moments break this conceptual clarity making a building full of unexpected spaces, between, under and around. Perhaps some of the most interesting being created accidentally due to whimsical changes in program during the early stages of ...

Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "ORDOS100: avant-garde architecture in the desert" on the ArtForum Chinese website. A short impression of the phase II meeting in Ordos and the site visit with the desert designers.

Desert Dérive or Sand Situationism. The 100 architects involved in ORDOS100 visited the site on April 14. Ground has almost broken, trees have been planted, spring emerges and in comparison with our previous visit, sand has replaced snow.

ORDOS100 is entering its next level. The architects involved in phase II gathered with the ones of phase I for a Sunday morning question and answer. 100 architects from 30 countries in one room in Ordos. An impression.

A FAKE festival of forms. 28 presentations of 1000 square meters villas in one day. All to be built. By "the international architects". Only in China. Only in Ordos. Almost live, the first echography of a cadavre exclusive in action.

ORDOS100 held its second meeting. Between April 11 and April 16, 100 international architecture offices came to Ordos, in Inner Mongolia. movingcities attended this event, trying to grasp diversity, variety and similarity. An impression of the opening evening.

Embassy of Belgium | April 10, 2008 The Embassy of Belgium in China hosts a lecture organized by Bert de Muynck | movingcities. The lecture will feature two Belgian offices and one Mexican (with a Belgian co-founder) that work within the context of the ORDOS100-project. Lecture in English and starts at 6.30 pm. Please RSVP.