Archive for architectures
a+t density series | book review
January 27th, 2012 • architectures, movingmemos
Tags: books, housing
This is Hybrid & Density is Home | a+t architecture publishers
A couple of weeks ago, MovingCities received two books from a+t architecture publishers: This is Hybrid and Density is Home. The last publication presents 37 projects on collective housing, while the first, featuring a preface by Steven Holl, presents itself as the first theoretical-practical book on hybrid buildings, an analysis of mixed-use buildings and a showcase of architecture build up by accounting books. read more »
Shenzhen Planning Building | Urbanus Architecture & Design
November 20th, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, housing, shenzhen 深圳, urbanism
Shenzhen Planning Building by Urbanus Architecture & Design | November 11, 2011
On Friday November 11, MovingCities paid a visit to the Shenzhen Planning Building 深圳规划大厦, designed by Urbanus Architecture & Design 都市实践. Located inside the building is the Shenzhen Center for Design 都市实践, a newly established NGO institute aiming to encourage and promote innovative urban and habitat design. Currently they are organizing the 1-Unit 100-Families 10000-Residents Competition of Affordable Housing Design. Deadline for the competition is near, on Friday November 25, 2011. Background and info. read more »
OCT | Urbanus Architecture & Design
November 15th, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, shenzhen 深圳
OCT Phase 2 by Urbanus Architecture & Design | November 9, 2011
While in Shenzhen 深圳, MovingCities seems to be almost naturally pulled towards the OCT Loft-area. This creative precinct is the place where we meet people, where we drink and eat, shop, stroll and sometimes sleep. Recently, Urbanus Architecture & Design 都市实践 completed the second phase of the renovation of this creative cluster. A few snapshots. read more »
Évora | Quinta da Malagueira
October 3rd, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, travel
Tags: architecture, evora, housing, lisbon
Quinta da Malagueira by Alvaro Siza | August 25, 2011
The Quinta da Malagueira housing project in Évora by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira [1933-...] is an architectural classic. Its grid of parallel rows of streets and alleys, back-to-back patio houses and system of raised concrete aqueducts – connecting the separate residential clusters together – are part of today’s textbook material on social housing. It is so classic, one tends to forget it exists for over thirty years, it still is inhabited and is evolving to a next stage of architectural adaptation. The adaptation [parking, paint and printed materials] of architectural austerity. read more »
Cascais | Estoril Sol Residence
October 1st, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, travel
Tags: architecture, housing, lisbon
Estoril Sol Residence by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos | August 30, 2011
While on our way to the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, we passed along the Estoril Sol Residence, a 15 storey new housing complex with 110 dwellings, by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos. More background, pictures and video’s of the project via designboom, ArchDaily, Reynaers Aluminium and Joao Morgado. read more »
