Last year, when visiting Brussels, MovingCities scanned Ground Euro - the European Quarter - and the area around La Femme & Parking58. This time around we look at the "North Residency", a housing slab built in 1974, located the back of Brussels' North Railway Station.
Snapshots of the last day in Amsterdam shows the area around the St. Lucas Andreas Hospital in the West of the city. Here, locked in-between the highway and the railway, hospitals are mixed with high-rise, construction sites with transportation networks. Territorial transformation, for the trendy and sporty, is at hand.
Do construction sites look different from one culture to another? Can one, after wandering around on them, define those characteristics that distinguish, lets say, a Chinese from a Dutch construction site? Should we look at the differences in size, location, density of man and materials, or at similarities such as concrete, steel and fences?
After living and working in Amsterdam from 2001 to 2006, MovingCities has returned occasionally back to the city during the past years. In 2008 we interviewed professor Moshe Zwarts on the plans to build a city under the city, in 2009 to scan the destruction of the PostCS-building and to visit the notorious Bijlmermeer-area. This time around we look at the development of the IJ riverbank, the MuziekGebouw ...
Our urban experience of Helsinki was limited to the exploration of the snow-covered historical center while trying to stay straight on slippery streets. From us a few urban snapshots. For some architecture check out the 0300TV documentaries on the work of Steven Holl, Alvar Aalto and Timo & Tuomo Suomalainen in Helsinki.
China is in transit and subways are sprouting around and under us. China is not only an urban nation, but with about 2500 kilometers of subway lines nationwide under construction it also more and more a subway nation. In December 2009, subway Line7, also called the Expo Line, opened in Shanghai (check subway map), connecting Shanghai University in the North and Huamu Road (Pudong) in the South of ...
After a holiday hiatus (all best for 2010!), MovingCities is serving some leftover snapshots from the Vanke Center Shenzhen by Steven Holl Architects. The visit in December was part of the opening of the "URBANISMS Steven Holl + Li Hu: 4 Projects in China"-exhibition located in what is known as the Horizontal Skyscraper.
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going so soon? we are under construction...hold on!