posts tagged ‘lisbon’
Portugal | drive-through I
October 13th, 2010 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: lisbon, on-the-move
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 to the Algarve. After crossing the river estuary in the city of Setúbal, where the Sado River enters the Atlantic Ocean, this secondary road showed us, while chasing the sunset, glimpses of villages, vineyards, churches, mountain ranges and fields. read more »
Lisbon >> Brussels
May 29th, 2009 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: aerophotography, brussels, lisbon, on-the-move
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.
Fresh Portuguese Architects, Bloggers and Spatialites
May 27th, 2009 • architectures, cities, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, lisbon, urbanism
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 Architekten, Os Espacialistas, ateliermob, Sami Arquitectos and Pedro Gadanho. read more »
Lisbon snapshots | part V
May 26th, 2009 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: lisbon, urbanism
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.
Lisbon snapshots | part IV
May 25th, 2009 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos
Tags: lisbon, urbanism
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.
