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Crimson New Town Research | Daxing field trip

The last stop of the New Town-research, conducted by Crimson Architectural Historians, was the satellite town of Daxing - located twenty minutes driving south-west of the center of Beijing.

Crimson New Town Research | Baiwangzhuang field trip

On Saturday February 14, MovingCities and Crimson Architectural Historians explored the current state of the Baiwangzhuang residential area in Beijing.

Crimson New Town Research | Mentougou field trip

On Friday February 13, MovingCities went on an embedded urban research trip with Crimson Architectural Historians. Throughout the past one and a half decade this Rotterdam based collective has developed an intriguing hybrid practice that takes the contemporary city as its object. Their ongoing study is a worldwide research project on the phenomenon, evolution, discourse and current state of the New Town: After the second world war a large ...

CHINA ACCORDING TO CHINA | 0300TV

Completely filmed by Diego Grass Puga | 0300TV before 2008’s Beijing Olympics and edited right after its ending, “CHINA ACCORDING TO CHINA” presents a set of thoughts by five local architects on China’s current situation and history. This special isn’t an effort to portrait a certain scene [the profiles of each character are quite diverse] but to establish four issues that every Chinese architect has to deal with in ...

CHINA ACCORDING TO CHINA by 0300TV | interview

“What is exactly happening here?” | movingcities.org Back in the pre-Olympic Beijing times, when Beijing's urban development was in full force, fast forward, closely watched and mesmerizing, the paths of MovingCities and 0300TV crossed in a very fruitful and productive way. 0300TV is, to us without any doubt, the web's premier architectural television channel. Ran from Chile, the ass of the world as architect/director Diego Grass Puga described ...

Babel for Billionaires | publication

Mark Magazine had in August/September its 15th issue out. Bert de Muynck | MovingCities contributed to it with an article on ORDOS100. From our ORDOS100 Embedded Architects-perspective, yes, we need the eye of a fly to see the multitude of architectures that grow in the Inner-Mongolian desert, this piece gives an insight in the development of the project during its two first meetings, in January and April ...

ORDOS100 | out of Ordos

Saturday, June 28. Sunday, June 29. The last days of the second phase of ORDOS100. Day 4 continued with the critiques of the 36 proposals that were previously presented. Day 5, Mr. Cai, the client, and FAKE Design offered the architects a late afternoon dinner, toasted around and wished them a good journey back home. Followed a last tour through the 'old Ordos', taking a 38 kilometers drive to ...

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