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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?

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 ...

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.

snowballarchitecture.fi already posted a glimpse of the 'Snowball Helsinki dim sum at NOW'-party which followed the SNOWBALL Helsinki seminar and Pan Jian Feng's lecture & opening. MovingCities introduces music - warm, mellow, dub, folk, post-rock - by Tuomas Toivonen (FI) and LinDi 林 笛 (CN).

The SNOWBALL Helsinki seminar at KIASMA concluded with a short lecture by Chinese artist Pan Jian Feng followed by the vernissage of his show at Lasipalatsi Square. During the month of February, Pan Jian Feng is invited to be part of the Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme.