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Belgium is all about trains and railway stations, dilapidated and new ones. In this episode the Liège Guillemins TGV Station by Santiago Calatrava in 28 frames. For all other information and reviews check YouTube, ArcSpace, SkyScraperCity, Inhabitat, World Architecture News, The Guardian, Wikipedia, Google Images, Dezeen, Archinect, Bing, AltaVista, Icon and Oamos.

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.

An extended series of images capturing one week of moving around in the northern part of Belgium, Flanders, by train. The home of continental Europe's first railway, built in 1835, Belgium has one of Europe's most extensive rail networks. Snapshots from Ghent, Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels. And the 99% urbanized area in between these cities.

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.

In Mark Magazine #24 (February-March 2010), Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published an interview with Beijing-based structural engineer Rory McGowan [ARUP and ARUP in Beijing]. "Learning from CCTV | an interview with Rory McGowan" is now online.

Thursday February 18, the Netherlands Architecture Institute [NAi] held a pre-opening of the 'Disputed City' - an exhibition about the outcry architecture can cause. This was followed by a lecture by NAi-director Ole Bouman on the 'Architecture of Consequence', the theme of another exhibit, opening the following day. Both measure the effect of architecture on mankind.

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?