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Last Thursday (May 29) "Line13 Superlinearity" workshop visited China´s leading landscape architectural office: TURENSCAPE Design Institute. Alejandro Cabrera Camprubi invited the students to have their in-work findings/presentations and offered an insight into some of the strategies and design principles underlying TURENSCAPE´s projects. We took Line13, stopping at Shangdi station (Zhongguancun District) and, with a diverse range of transportation means available, headed towards the office.

Between May 27 and May 31 movingcities is invited by Adrian Blackwell, Assistant Professor at Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto to give a design workshop in Beijing, hosted by Theatre in Motion's studio. We will be looking closer, through a series of fieldtrips and programmatic interventions, into the Beijing's peri-urban condition along the Northern section of Line13.

movingcities publishes "Moving Cities: Life on the New Frontier" in Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers. SARAI is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, one of India’s leading research institutes with a commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on critically expanding the horizons of the discourse on development, particularly with reference to South Asia.

Big on concept, the QingPu Thumb Island by MADA s.p.a.m., lies in the middle of an artificial lake an hour outside Shanghai. We've all seen the 'wavy-roof-becomes-landscape' idea before, however several bizarre moments break this conceptual clarity making a building full of unexpected spaces, between, under and around. Perhaps some of the most interesting being created accidentally due to whimsical changes in program during the early stages of ...

Bert de Muynck | movingcities interviewed professor Moshe Zwarts, from Zwarts & Jansma, on the plans his office developed for a city under Amsterdam.

Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "ORDOS100: avant-garde architecture in the desert" on the ArtForum Chinese website. A short impression of the phase II meeting in Ordos and the site visit with the desert designers.

Impression of field trip in the slipstream of the ORDOS100-project. On April 17 movingcities drove through Baotou, the largest city in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. The city has an elevation of about 1,050 meters. In 1937, Baotou was built up into a municipality. Nowadays, Baotou has jurisdiction over nine countries and districts and one national development zone (Rare—earth High—tech Industrial development zone) with a total area of ...