On Monday February 15, MovingCities was in Helsinki in the morning and Amsterdam in the evening. Driving on Finnish roads, flying over Europe and landing on a balcony in Amsterdam's Western districts. Some snapshots of a European day of traveling.
This week MovingCities resides in Helsinki. Working and preparing the upcoming 'SNOWBALL Architecture'-seminar in Shanghai [end of March 2010], a three-day event that will bring together Chinese and Finnish architects. This Friday we will give a talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. More information on both events will follow soon. For now, some aerophotography snapshots. From Pudong, over a snow-white Gobi desert to Vantaa.
It is early on Monday morning when we are leaving Shanghai's Jing'an District. On the ground level the city is still asleep and largely empty. Once on the elevated highway one sees traffic thickening, towers disappearing in the fog and trucks leaving the city.
Our impressions of Guangzhou are random and scattered. Drifting for four days in-between the GAFA Campus, Tianhe Central Business District, shoppingmalls, rooftops, the Opera House and the Pearl River Tower, we eventually headed to Guangzhou's Eastern Railway Station. Destination Shenzhen.
As always, no better way to extract oneself from the chaotic and bustling streetlife of the Chinese city than to explore it from above. From rooftops, remaining always in the center of the urban scenery, MovingCities explored from four locations Guangzhou's massive horizon-filling panorama of architectural projects of all stamps. Some bird's eye time.
After spending our Saturday on the Guangzhou University Island, on Sunday we took a cab to North-Eastern part of town; Tianhe District and its Central Business District. First stop was Teemall, the city's largest shopping center allegedly averaging 300,000 visitors a day. A metro ride to the South, the second stop was SunYat Sen Univeristy University - Guangzhou South Campus - at the banks of the Pearl River, ...
We spend our first day in Guangzhou meandering in-between the gigantic Guangzhou University Town campus and the remnants of an adjacent urban village. Under construction, the island will accommodate 10 top universities and 250,000 students, while, under destruction, folk, improvised and narrow-lane architectures are disappearing. Jiang Jun and Gabrielle Marks walked us around.
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going so soon? we are under construction...hold on!