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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 ...