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Saturday, June 28. Sunday, June 29. The last days of the second phase of ORDOS100. Day 4 continued with the critiques of the 36 proposals that were previously presented. Day 5, Mr. Cai, the client, and FAKE Design offered the architects a late afternoon dinner, toasted around and wished them a good journey back home. Followed a last tour through the 'old Ordos', taking a 38 kilometers drive to ...

Friday, June 27. Day 3 of the second phase of ORDOS100. The 36 architects that presented their proposals on the first day received their critiques. The others lounged in the hotel or went for a site visit. Mónica Carriço | movingcities joined the desert trip visiting the site with Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira | SAMI Arquitectos (PT). Ordos Project: parallel to the ORDOS100 website, there ...

Thursday June 26. Day 2 of the second phase presentation of ORDOS100. Another 36 architects presenting another 36 villa's. From 9 o'clock onwards the bombardment started, only to end 9 hours later. At the end of these two days, one starts wondering what one has seen, what the messages were that came through. One couldn't help that villa's started blurring into each other, the borders between kitsch and criticality ...

Wednesday June 25. Day 1 of the second phase presentation of ORDOS100. 36 architects, 36 villa's, 36 presentations, 36 thousand square meters of creative thinking. A bombardment of ideas on a plot somewhere in Inner-Mongolia. 9 hours of words and images. Interrupted by a lunch break. In the center of the meeting room one finalized model, featuring the 100 proposals, around which the architects gathered. All architects and ...

ORDOS100 concluded its third and last meeting. Between June 24 and June 29, the 72 international architecture offices of ORDOS100 phase II came back to Ordos, Inner Mongolia. movingcities attended this meeting, absorbing 72000 square meters of villa's in five days, that is 600 square meters an hour. An impression of the opening evening.

Snapshots from the third day in Seoul. After site visit to the Ewha Campus Complex Bert de Muynck|movingcities strolled through the area around the campus, home to boutiques, restaurant, shoe shops and shopping malls. Followed by a visit to the Jongo Tower, a masterpiece of the almost lost craft of high-tech architecture: build in 1999 by Rafael Viñoly Architects, it offers a great view on the city.

Snapshots from the second day in Seoul. After site visit to the Ewha Campus Complex Bert de Muynck|movingcities went exploring Seoul's Inner Circle Line. Build between 1978 and 1984, it is the city's longest subway line, with a total length of 60,2 kilometer and 43 stations. Investigating the state of the contemporary city in and around stations like Sinseol-dong, Sinsa, Banpo, Dairim and Dangsan gave some impression of ...

In Seoul, South-Korea, for a short three day visit. Icon asked Bert de Muynck|movingcities to write a review on the recently opened Ewha Campus Complex (located at the Ewha Womens University), designed by French office Dominique Perrault and South-Korean partner office Baum. In-between the site visit, some explorations on the city: snapshots of the first day in Seoul.

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

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 ...