posts tagged ‘beijing 北京’
Beijing | Gulou Hutong(s)
July 21st, 2010 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos
Tags: beijing 北京, demolition, urbanism
Area around Gulou Dajie subway station | May 20, 2010
A short trip down the metropolitan memory lane: in 2008 we published Making Minced Meat out of Memory [MONU Magazine] and in 2009 our Hutong Histories-triptych [ 1, 2 & 3]. It’s 2010 and the destruction of the Gulou area is still going strong. These days D+STREAM picks up Hutong Cemeteries; the New York Times reports on it [same old, same old] and MovingCities revisits the Gulou area. read more »
Beijing | Do You Hutong?
July 15th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: beijing 北京, demolition, urbanism
Lumicang Hutong | Beijing, July 5, 2010
Do You Hutong? [看！胡同] – upcoming Saturday, July 17 from 19:00 to 23:00, at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre – is a fund-raising event hosted by the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center (CHP). The eve will blend cultural heritage, art, dialogue and interpretation. Our distant contribution to support awareness around this subject is our yearly coverage of the current debate and some snapshots. MovingCities features the Lumicang Hutong. read more »
Beijing | SOHO Sanlitun & skyline
July 14th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: beijing 北京, skyline
SOHO Sanlitun by Kengo Kuma | April 26, 2010
During the past few months MovingCities was a couple of times in Beijing [北京]. As we did not keep up the pace of posting, this week we present a selection of past impressions centered around our favorite Beijing topics: hutong(s), highways, hyperblocks and skylines. We lift off with some rooftop-views on Kengo Kuma‘s recently completed Sanlitun SOHO-project [三里屯SOHO官方网站]. read more »
Shenzhen | Taking A Stance
June 23rd, 2010 • events, movingmemos
Tags: beijing 北京, exhibition, lectures, shenzhen 深圳
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
Tags: architecture, beijing 北京, interviews, publications
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 »
Illegal Copying | publication
April 19th, 2010 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, beijing 北京, books, publications
Illegal Copying | Mark Magazine#24
[re-post] Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine ‘Illegal Copying’, an article about the phenomenon of the underground architectural booksellers and their trade in illegally copied architecture books, DVD’s and magazines. Location: Beijing, China. Original pirate material [back] online! read more »
Shanghai SNOWBALL Seminar | day II
April 6th, 2010 • architectures, consultancy, events, movingmemos, works
Tags: architecture, beijing 北京, guangzhou 广州, hangzhou 杭州, helsinki, projects, seminar, shanghai 上海, snowball
![OK-DO interviews Meng Yan from URBANUS [Beijing/Shenzhen] | Shanghai SnowBall Seminar](http://movingcities.org/wordpress/wp-content/photos/sha_snowball/100326-sha-snowball-0363.jpg)
OK-DO interviews Meng Yan from URBANUS [Beijing/Shenzhen] | Shanghai SnowBall Seminar
[re-post] Second installment of our belated follow-up on the past Shanghai SnowBall Seminar. Friday March 26 was the second of a two day series of presentations and followed up in intensity, speed and range of topics on the first day. More SnowBall snapshots. read more »
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