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Mark Magazine has its 14th issue out. Bert de Muynck | movingcities contributed to it with an article on Beijing's Olympic Architecture. Throughout the past months the flood of article's on the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube delivered a particularly distorted image of the impact of the Olympic Games on the Chinese capital city. Focusing on a few lesser known Olympic Stadia might put Beijing's Olympic development ...

Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "Mediocrity and the Metropolis" in JongArsitek. JongARSITEK! is a free architectural e-magazine made by some young Indonesian architects including Danny Wicaksono, whom we met in the context of ORDOS100.

Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "Making minced meat of memory" in the MUDOT Magazine. In a series of projects dealing with 'hutong hallucinations' the author mixes Beijing, Rem Koolhaas, Michel Houellebecq, Ou Ning, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ai Weiwei, Simone de Beauvoir and many others into the debate on Beijing's preservation. Prince Charles, unfortunately, launched his call to 'save the hutongs' too late to meet the deadline of the ...

Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "SOHO China's New Futurism" on the ArtForum Chinese website. A short overview of past, present and future ambition of Beijing's biggest real-estate developers.

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.