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Lisbon >> Brussels

movingcities — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:17:09 +0000

MovingCities flies from Lisbon to Brussels, developing the idea of an AirplaneApp dealing with aerophotography. September 2, 2011.

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Évora | Quinta da Malagueira

movingcities — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:57:10 +0000

MovingCities visits and provides background to the Quinta da Malagueira-project in Évora, masterplan and design by Álvaro Siza Vieira.

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Cascais | Estoril Sol Residence

movingcities — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:35:20 +0000

MovingCities visits the Estoril Sol Residence-project in Cascais, a 15 storey new housing complex designed by Portuguese architecture office Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos.

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Cascais | Casa das Histórias Paula Rego

movingcities — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:30:56 +0000

MovingCities visits the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais. The museum is designed by 2011 Pritzker Prize winning Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.

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Portugal | drive-through II

movingcities — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:30:36 +0000

From Portimão to Alte | Algarve, August 16, 2010 More summer snapshots while driving along Portugal’s secondary routes. This time from Prainha, Portimão to Alte, passing such poetic places as Silves and São Bartolomeu de Messines, having respectively about 10,800 and 9,500 inhabitants. A journey from the sandy and crowded Algarve beach to the hilly [...]

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Portugal | drive-through I

movingcities — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:48:42 +0000

Sado river estuary in the city of Setúbal | August 13, 2010 A series of past summer snapshots while southwards speeding through Portugal, from Lisbon to the Algarve. Instead of taking the A2 highway, the Auto-estrada do Sul, we scanned the landscape from a parallel national road, the IC1, part of the old main road [...]

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Lisbon >> Brussels

movingcities — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:05:12 +0000

On Tuesday May 4 MovingCities flew from Lisbon to Brussels. The conditions for aerophotography were perfect; a windowseat and a morning flight. Leaving under a bright blue and open sky we flew North, with a excellent view on the 17 km Vasco da Gama Bridge, and landed hours later in a characteristically cloudy Belgium. Leaving [...]

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Fresh Portuguese Architects, Bloggers and Spatialites

movingcities — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:54:06 +0000

Exercícios ginásticos de espaço | Os Espacialistas During our stay in Lisbon we enountered occasionally and for several reasons Portuguese architects representing a new and diverse generation. They, to say the least, explore a wide range of spatial interventions, in the world and on the web. An introduction to the work of EMBAIXADA Arquitectura, Weltraum [...]

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Lisbon snapshots | part V

movingcities — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:41:48 +0000

Deserted shipyard along the Southern shore of the Lisbon Tagus estuary | May 1, 2009 Our final set of Lisbon snapshots deals with the second half of our May 1 Lisnave expedition. Continuing to explore the Southern shore of the Lisbon Tagus estuary, we ran into deserted shipyards and collapsed warehouses. Somewhere along the Southern [...]

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Lisbon snapshots | part IV

movingcities — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:48:38 +0000

Lisnave shipyard | May 1, 2009 After weeks of wandering aimlessly around in Lisbon, MovingCities met up on May 1 with the architects Paulo Goinhas & Cristina Mendonça [EMBAIXADA Arquitectura] and Simon Troufa Real. Our destination was the abandoned LISNAVE shipyard located in Almada, along the Southern border of Lisbon’s Tagus estuary. Today the LISNAVE shipyard [...]

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Lisbon snapshots | part III

movingcities — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:43:34 +0000

Lisbon | May 4, 2009 During our second week of Lisbon explorations we ended up in suburbia. And on the summits, the so-called Miradouro’s, of some of the 7 hills. Oftentimes near the end of the evening. Some snapshots from the suburbs of Algueirão and Mem Martins and views from the Miradouro de Santa Catarina, [...]

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Lisbon snapshots | part II

movingcities — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:18:34 +0000

Lisbon | April 22, 2009 More pictures resulting from circumstantial movements through Lisbon, while ascending and descending the hills and overlooking the city. A continuation of “7 Hills“-project which was presented and developed, in pre-MovingCities times, for the UIA2005 Congress in Istanbul: Bert de Muynck | MovingCities presented the “7 Hills“-project as a visual interpretation [...]

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Lisbon snapshots | part I

movingcities — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:30:05 +0000

Lisbon | April 21, 2009 Following up on earlier visits to Lisbon, a series of new urban snapshots. Pictures that are the outcome of a leisurely and seemingly detached relation with all things urban. While being disconnected from any form of work, research or commission, we moved without purpose and halted at those spots where [...]

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Brussels >> Lisbon

movingcities — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:52:30 +0000

On Thursday April 16 MovingCities flew from Brussels to Lisbon. While leaving and landing, some additional “aerophotographical” archiving was done. No tacky wildlife-shots from airballoons, no shoots from helicopters while using a tilt-shift lens but snapshots while ascending architectures, while diving and touching down in cities. Brussels | April 16, 2009 Lisbon | April 16, [...]

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Peter Zumthor | Experimentadesign Lisbon

movingcities — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:01:28 +0000

“Peter Zumthor – Buildings and Projects 1986-2007″ is an exhibition part of Experimentadesign Lisbon 2009. Featuring 29 projects, 5 large-scale models and a life-size video installation of 12 buildings (by the artists Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch), the exhibition gives an intriguing insight in the creative process of modelmaking that supports the creation of architecture. [...]

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Lisbon | Journey to the Edge of the City

movingcities — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:51:30 +0000

On Wednesday September 17, MovingCities went on a journey to the edge of the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon. Starting from ‘Alta de Lisboa’, a new developed area North-East from the airport, we went deeper into sprawland. A territory of high-density social housing projects, highway intersection, 1970s housing developments, illegal settlements and dilapidating buildings on the [...]

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Lisbon | view from 2 hills

movingcities — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:15:17 +0000

Lisbon is build on 7 hills. Brussels, Rome, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Istanbul and Amman share the same topographic characteristic, they are capital cities said to be build on 7 hills. In 2005, in pre-MovingCities-times, I started mixing these cities together in theory and presented in the context of the UIA2005-congress (Istanbul) the 7-project as a visual [...]

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Lisbon | urban snapshots

movingcities — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:13:27 +0000

Driving from the center of Lisbon to the 1998 Lisbon World Expo Site, cruising through a peri-urban area, then along the river Tagus to end up in the heart of the Expo site. The World’s Fair was held in Lisbon from May 22 to September 30, 1998. The theme of the fair was “The Oceans, [...]

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Lisbon | snapshots from the bridge

movingcities — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:36:01 +0000

Driving from South to North over the “25th of April Bridge”, a 2.2 kilometers suspension bridge over the river Tagus in Lisbon. Built in 1966, it looks much like San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and was constructed by the same builders. A couple of snapshots of Lisbon from on top of the bridge. Lisbon | [...]

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Brussels > Lisbon

movingcities — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:23:15 +0000

From airport to airport, cruising over the continent. Spending more time in airports than in airplanes. Enjoying life inside Aviopolis, the name of a book which is the result of a collaboration between Australian theorist Gillian Fuller and artist Ross Rudesch Harley. Gillian Fuller is also the author of the essay Life in Transit: between [...]

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