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SNOWBALL | Helsinki Rock City

February 25th, 2010 • events, movingmemos

SNOWBALL | Finnish and Chinese architecture

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 party was hosted by and at NOW‘s former studio space in Kamppi. Solid drinks and steamed-buns merged into an interesting Sino-Suomi blend of stylishness. NOW for Architecture and Urbanism is headed by Tuomas Toivonen & Nene Tsuboi. In the past Tuomas’s band ‘Giant Robot’ created the urban anthem “Helsinki Rock City” (youtube! watch it! remix it!), and recently released “New Utopia” (vimeo! watch it!), putting the beats and raps under Ebenezer Howard, Le Corbusier and the Garden City:

utopias have always been proposed
rationality and discipline
to build better cities
for people to live in
rewind to Fourier and Ledoux
town planning becomes a tool

Joining in, on the eve of the Chinese new year eve, was LinDi 林笛 (co-founder of the Chinese band Cold Fairyland (see youtube channel), from Shanghai. She plays keyboards, pipa & sings the lead vocals. Check out their Mirror Theater | 摹仿剧场 (youtube). Next to dancing and drinking, some of us were getting ready for the event at Chinese New Year Lasipalatsi Square next day.

Party-snapshots.