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ORDOS100 | out of Ordos

movingcities — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:30:31 +0000

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. [...]

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ORDOS100 | site visit

movingcities — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:34:29 +0000

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 [...]

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ORDOS100 | Ordos City

movingcities — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:44:28 +0000

The ORDOS100-project is located in the Ordos Cultural Creative Industry Park and sits on a plot of 197 ha. This project is part of the planning of a new 155 sq kilometers city in Inner-Mongolia, planned from scratch for a population of 200,000 in the year 2020. An impression of a city under construction. Ordos [...]

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ORDOS100 | 100 architects site visit

movingcities — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:27:57 +0000

Desert Dérive or Sand Situationism. The 100 architects involved in ORDOS100 visited the site on April 14. Ground has almost broken, trees have been planted, spring emerges and in comparison with our previous visit, sand has replaced snow. Ordos Masterplan Explanation | April 14, 2008 ORDOS100 Site Visit | April 14, 2008 Art studios by [...]

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Be’er Sheva field trip

movingcities — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:30:33 +0000

On Thursday March 6, we went on a field trip to Be’er Sheva (Beersheba), the largest city in the Negev Desert. In preparation for our research on desert cities we couldn’t miss this one, ‘the Capital of the Negev’. Be’er Sheva is the sixth largest city in Israel and has a population of approximately 200,000. [...]

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Negev fieldtrip

movingcities — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:36:25 +0000

The Monument to the Negev Brigade, designed by Dani Karavan | Be'er Sheva, March 1, 2008 Unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert | Be'er Sheva, March 1, 2008 Ramon Crater | Mitzpe Ramon, March 1, 2008 Arad (1963) the first pre-planned city in Israel | Arad, March 2, 2008 Dead Sea Tourism | Dead [...]

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Ordos snapshots

movingcities — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:27:50 +0000

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