posts tagged ‘infrastructure’
Liège | Guillemins TGV station
March 17th, 2010 • architectures, cities, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, infrastructure, liège
Liège Guillemins TGV Station | February 27, 2010
Belgium is all about trains and railway stations, dilapidated and new ones. In this episode the Liège Guillemins TGV Station by Santiago Calatrava in 28 frames. For all other information and reviews check YouTube, ArcSpace, SkyScraperCity, Inhabitat, World Architecture News, The Guardian, Wikipedia, Google Images, Dezeen, Archinect, Bing, AltaVista, Icon and Oamos.
Brussels | North railway station
March 16th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: brussels, infrastructure, on-the-move
North Residency | Brussels, February 23, 2010
Last year, when visiting Brussels, MovingCities scanned Ground Euro – the European Quarter – and the area around La Femme & Parking58. This time around we look at the “North Residency”, a housing slab built in 1974, located the back of Brussels’ North Railway Station. read more »
Belgium | trainstations & landscapes
March 15th, 2010 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: antwerp, brussels, ghent, infrastructure, on-the-move
Ghent | February 23, 2010
An extended series of images capturing one week of moving around in the northern part of Belgium, Flanders, by train. The home of continental Europe’s first railway, built in 1835, Belgium has one of Europe’s most extensive rail networks. Snapshots from Ghent, Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels. And the 99% urbanized area in between these cities.
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Amsterdam | the West
March 12th, 2010 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos
Tags: amsterdam, infrastructure, urbanism
Amsterdam West | February 19, 2010
Snapshots of the last day in Amsterdam shows the area around the St. Lucas Andreas Hospital in the West of the city. Here, locked in-between the highway and the railway, hospitals are mixed with high-rise, construction sites with transportation networks. Territorial transformation, for the trendy and sporty, is at hand. read more »
Rotterdam | Central Station
March 8th, 2010 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: construction, infrastructure, rotterdam
Rotterdam Central Station | February 18, 2010
Do construction sites look different from one culture to another? Can one, after wandering around on them, define those characteristics that distinguish, lets say, a Chinese from a Dutch construction site? Should we look at the differences in size, location, density of man and materials, or at similarities such as concrete, steel and fences? read more »
