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ATLAS – geography, architecture & change | book review

movingcities — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:57:43 +0000

Atlas | Artifice, 2012 ‘Atlas – Geography, Architecture, and Change in an Interdependent World’ was published by Artifice in 2012. Edited by Renata Tyszczuk, Joe Smith, Nigel Clark and Melissa Butcher, the publication aims to test novel ways of looking at globale envrionmental and economic change and presents itself as a collection of exploratory sketches [...]

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Shanghai Tower | under construction

movingcities — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 03:55:01 +0000

Shanghai Tower by Gensler | under construction | Pudong April 27 2013 The Shanghai Tower 上海中心大厦 is a supertall skyscraper under construction in the Pudong district of Shanghai 上海. Recently, the Shanghai Tower celebrated its 4th anniversary of construction and today’s its skeleton is dominating the Shanghai skyline. MovingCities pays a close-up look, from its curtain [...]

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Hong Kong >> Shanghai

movingcities — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:47 +0000

Leaving Hong Kong International Airport | April 19, 2009 Mid-April MovingCities was for a couple of days in Hong Kong 香港. While on our way back to Shanghai 上海 we advanced our series of aerophotography, realizing it’s the first time we landed and took-off from Hong Kong. Hong Kong >> Shanghai Hong Kong to Shanghai Landing Shanghai [...]

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Shanghai >> Hangzhou

movingcities — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:06:17 +0000

Shanghai - Hangzhou | April 22, 2013 During the month of April, MovingCities spend three Mondays in Hangzhou 杭州 lecturing at the School of Architecture of China Academy of Art Hangzhou [CAA 中国美术学院建筑艺术学院] on the relation between architecture, urbanism and the movies. While travelling on the Shanghai–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway [also known as Huhang High-Speed Railway 沪杭高速铁路], [...]

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DEFAULT13 | Shanghai panel at K11

movingcities — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:18:11 +0000

DEFAULT 13 | The Role of Public Art in Asia and Europe Join us tomorrow, April 16 – 7pm at chi K11 art space [chi K11艺术空间] in Xintiandi for a public panel related to the DEFAULT 13 project [see MovingCities announcement]. This event will be first public panel of six supplementary events that will be [...]

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Shanghai State of Affairs | Igor Peraza [EMBT]

movingcities — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:46:44 +0000

Spanish Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo by EMBT | 2010 The fourth installment of the 2012/13 “Shanghai State of Affairs” lecture series by Bert de Muynck at the HKU Shanghai Study Center is dealing with ‘Architectural Practice before and after the 2010 Shanghai World Expo‘. Invited speaker this Tuesday is Igor Peraza - Director Shanghai [...]

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DEFAULT13 | call for participation

movingcities — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:58:09 +0000

DEFAULT 13: Art, Cities and Regeneration. Asia – Europe Masterclass in residence MovingCities is pleased to further the call for participation to DEFAULT 13 Masterclass residency in Lecce [Puglia Region in Southern Italy]. Presented by RAMDOM & Arthub Asia, and taking place from September 17th to 26th 2013, DEFAULT 13 focuses on the role and perspectives of public art and its implications for [...]

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The Brick Whisperer | Ningbo | publication

movingcities — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:51:58 +0000

The Brick Whisperer | Ningbo 宁波 | MARK Magazine#42 Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in the Feb-March 2013 issue of Mark magazine #42 an interview with Liangfu Ni 倪良富 and Haoru Chen 陈浩如 called The Brick Whisperer. Reporting from Ningbo 宁波, the text deals with the Chinese craftsman Mr. Ni who’s skilful use of recycled bricks in the Ningbo [...]

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Shanghai State of Affairs | Neri & Hu [NHDRO]

movingcities — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:45:34 +0000

Waterhouse Boutique Hotel by NHDRO | 2010 The third installment of the 2012/13 “Shanghai State of Affairs” lecture series by Bert de Muynck at the HKU Shanghai Study Center is centered around ‘Updating & Rethinking Shanghai’s Design & Architecture’. Invited speaker this Saturday is Lyndon Neri [Founding Partner NHDRO] who will talk about the experience [...]

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Chongqing | Huangjueping Graffiti Street

movingcities — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:46:05 +0000

Huangjueping in Chongqing's Jiulongpo District | January 18, 2013 Huangjueping Graffiti Street 黄桷坪涂鸦街 is said to be the largest graffiti art region in China and the world. While in Chongqing 重庆, MovingCities visited the area home to a number of galleries, studios, and art schools – most notably, the 501 Art Warehouse and Organhaus Art Space and [...]

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Chongqing | topography & territory

movingcities — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:35:26 +0000

Chongqing 重庆 | January 17, 2013 Last week, MovingCities visited Chongqing 重庆. Located in the South-West of China and at the confluence of the Jialing River 嘉陵江 and Yangtze River 扬子江, this metropolis is one of the PRC’s four direct-controlled municipalities [the other three are Beijing 北京, Shanghai 上海 and Tianjin 天津]. Chongqing is know for a variety [...]

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Shanghai | life on Jiangxi North Road

movingcities — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:10:15 +0000

JiangXi North Road | Shanghai, January 13, 2012 The Embankment building 河滨大楼 [see our June 2012 + May 2011 coverage] is located in-between Henan Road Bridge 河南路桥 & JiangXi North Road 江西北路 [Hongkou District 虹口区]. Just behind this edifice is a large sprawling shopping area, which we started to call ‘Little Beijing‘. Recently MovingCities walked around this small [...]

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Shanghai >> Shenzhen | from pigeon to airplane

movingcities — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:33:14 +0000

Shanghai - Shenzhen | December 7, 2012 Last month, MovingCities flew from Shanghai 上海 to Shenzhen 深圳. In the past years, we landed in Shenzhen 深圳 from many different directions. This time around we descended along the city’s most densified urban areas and used this opportunity to discuss the relation between aerophotography and the work [...]

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Cities Without Ground | book review

movingcities — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:37:52 +0000

Cities Without Ground | ORO Editions, 2012 Recently MovingCities received Cities Without Ground [April 2012, ORO Editions], a publication by Adam Frampton, Jonathan Solomon and Clara Wong. The subject is the city of Hong Kong 香港 and the publication is – as the subtitle suggests – more a Hong Kong guidebook than a pamphlet, manifesto [...]

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MovingCities 2012 | an overview

movingcities — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:44:15 +0000

Shanghai | January 1, 2013 2012 was a good year for MovingCities. With 2013 barely started, we composed a non-lineair overview of the past year. The selection is based on content, correspondences and aspects of continuity across various projects, publications and places. While our Portuguese posts on Peter Zumthor and Álvaro Siza Vieira keep on [...]

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Strelka Institute in Shanghai | lecture & forum

movingcities — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:00:46 +0000

Strelka in Shanghai | MovingCities lecture @HKU-SSC 14Dec2012 #shtrip12 #day2 MovingCities was invited by the students from the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design [based in Moscow] to give a lecture on the topic of Shanghai 上海 as a MEGACITY. The lecture was part of their 2012 Field Trip #day2 program [Friday December 14th]. [...]

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Hangzhou | metro & Hutouchen village

movingcities — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:18:13 +0000

Hangzhou's Hutouchen Village 湖头陈村 in Chengxiang Town, Xiaoshan District | 2012 During the past few weeks MovingCities spend a considerable amount of time in Hangzhou 杭州. Besides lecturing at CAA, we ventured out into some unknown metropolitan territories. As the new Hangzhou Metro was recently opened, we embarked on a field trip to the end [...]

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HKU Shanghai Study Center | Final Review

movingcities — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:23:14 +0000

HKU Shanghai Study Center review | December 6, 2012 Last Thursday, the second-year architecture students at the HKU Shanghai Study Centre presented their final projects. Dealing with ‘Density and the City‘, the 30 students in the studios of Pascal Berger [HKU Shanghai Academic Director], Wang Fei 王飛 and Martine Vledder showed their design proposals, maquettes [...]

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Ordos – constructed in the fast lane | Portal 9

movingcities — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:50:15 +0000

Portal 9 Journal - The Imagined | Autumn 2012 To understand the forces shaping Ordos, one must also look beyond the empty towers built on debt and for speculation and consider the role of the automobile, both in terms of an industry and as an individual status symbol. For the first issue of Portal 9 [...]

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FA-SH-ART! | Rockbund Art Museum

movingcities — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:08:05 +0000

Beijing Street Style | STYLITES Upcoming Sunday November 25, FA-SH-ART! – Fashion Creativity & Arts – is taking place at the Rockbund Art Museum [RAM 上海外滩美术馆] in Shanghai 上海. As part of FA-SH-ART! Basic Instincts, Dutch and Chinese Fashion in context -program, hosted by RAM & DutchDFA, MovingCities will present the Fashion in China Mapping report. The event starts at [...]

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