Transit Labour | fieldtrip
June 30th, 2010 • movingmemos, travel • no comments
Billboard on the way to Songjiang | June 26, 2010
“Songjiang, the Expo trip destination City” – featured one billboard along the way to Songjiang District 松江区, an Industrial Zone in the outskirts of Shanghai. Another one: “China Superhuman Group”. China’s highways are excellent lines of investigation to understand the course of its culture, construction and commerce. As part of the Transit Labour-project, last week MovingCities joined on a field trip to the Shanghai Meadville Electronics IT facility. Snapshots while monitoring city building and circuit board manufacturing. Read more »
Shenzhen | Taking A Stance
June 23rd, 2010 • events, movingmemos • no comments
Taking A Stance | Beijing, April 27 2010
This weekend, MovingCities will be in Shenzhen to be part of the opening and symposium of the China-touring ‘Taking A Stance’-exhibition. After Shanghai and Beijing, the NAi-exhibit will land in Shenzhen presenting 8 critical attitudes in Chinese and Dutch architecture and design featuring OMA, URBANUS, Ai Weiwei, Irma Boom, Alexander van Slobbe, MeWe, Ma Ke and Hella Jongerius. Read more »
XU Tiantian | publication
June 22nd, 2010 • architectures, movingmemos, writings • no comments
Xu Tiantian (DnA) | Songzhuang artists’ residence
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Chinese architect XU Tiantian 徐甜甜 [DnA_Design and architecture]. The talk gave some background to and insight in one of her recently completed projects: the Songzhuang artists’ residence. Located in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, the residences (20 living and working units) are organized in an intriguing play of stacked boxes. Now online. Read more »
Nanjing | skyline
June 21st, 2010 • cities, movingmemos • no comments
Nanjing skyline | March 13, 2010
Another birds’ eye glimpse of Nanjing. This time not a mega-maquette, but a fragmented metropolitan view on 1:1 scale seen from the two different hotels we stayed. From there Nanjing’s urban and architectural development looks rather mature. Overall there is an absence of large stretches of uniform zoning, as Nanjing presents itself as a fragmented mix of low and high-rises, of the bland and the beautiful. Read more »
Nanjing | Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
June 16th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos • 1 comment
Urban Planning Exhibition Hall | Nanjing, April 9 2010
There are many ways to get a grip on the immensity of any Chinese city. One way to understand the development – besides driving through, seeing from a rooftop or by wandering around – is to head to the local urban planning museum. Typically these spaces exhibit the largest scale-model you ever saw, while the corridors are draped with explanations about planning strategies, new iconic buildings and historical developments. Read more »
Nanjing | CIPEA
June 10th, 2010 • architectures, movingmemos • no comments
CIPEA | March 13, 2010
While in Nanjing last March, MovingCities visited the CIPEA-project along with architect Zhang Lei. CIPEA stands for China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture and features a collection of architectural structures designed by Steven Holl Architects, Amateur Architecture Studio, Ettore Sottsass, SANAA, David Adjaye, Mathias Klotz, SANAKSENAHO Architects, Odile Decq and many others. Some background and snapshots. Read more »
Shanghai >> Nanjing | by bus
June 10th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos, travel • no comments
Shanghai - Nanjing | April 7, 2010
As we’re resuming posting and tweaking the site, we start with a few snapshots from our April trip from Shanghai [上海] to Nanjing [南京]. After the train, a semi-parallel set off pictures shot from the bus: villages, malls, highways, fields and factories. In no particular order; China’s highways are construction-site corridors. Read more »
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