posts tagged ‘macau 澳门’

Shanghai >> Shenzhen >> Macau

Leaving Shanghai | November 4, 2009
Leaving Shanghai | November 4, 2009

Highways, elevated roads, bridges, tunnels, waiting rooms, tarmac, airports, cabins, runways, food for flying, turbojet, window seats, clouds, seafood, suburbs, aerophotography, land reclamation, islands, shipyards, masses, gambling, golf courts, corridors and borders. This week we are in the Pearl River Delta. First stop: Macau. A journey in snapshots.

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Macau >> Shenzhen

Pearl River Delta | July 8, 2009
Pearl River Delta | July 8, 2009

The last leg of our one week travel to Macau and Hong Kong, in function of the Urban Panorama Workshop, consisted of the crossing of the Macau and Zhuhai border, followed by a 3 hour drive to Shenzhen over the INFRARED© infrastructure of the Pearl River Delta (PRD). read more »

Macau >> Hong Kong

Macau - Hong Kong | July 6, 2009
Macau - Hong Kong | July 6, 2009

On Monday July 6, MovingCities moved from Macau to Hong Kong. As during our Shenzhen to Macau travel, we traveled by turbojet. A couple of snapshots while speeding through the mouth of the Pearl River Delta. After the skyline, the sea.
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Urban Panorama | TIMC09!!! workshop, exhibit & party

THIS IS MY CITY 09 我的城市!!! banner | Albergue SCM patio  (source: +853)
THIS IS MY CITY 09 我的城市!!! banner | Albergue SCM patio (source: +853)

After Friday’s city tour (part I & II), Saturday was the  TIMC09!!!-event second day devoted to the collaborative works on the Urban Panorama Workshop. After a full day of observation, a short day of interpretation and speculation. At the end of the day, a party at Macau’s Albergue showcasing artists from Hong Kong and Beijing. read more »

Urban Panorama Workshop | TIMC09!!! city tour (part II)

Urban Panorama Workshop | Macau, July 3, 2009
Urban Panorama Workshop | Macau, July 3, 2009

The afternoon chapter of Macau’s rooftop expedition (see morning tour) brought us to the rooftop of a residential building at Av. Ouvidor Arriaga, another one at Artur Tamagnini Barbosa and to the lounge bar ‘The View’. From the last one, located in The Sands complex at NAPE, one could see what happens when Alvaro Siza Vieira‘s 1983 Macau City Expansion Plan meets the generic demands of the city’s gaming industry. We concluded the day at Guia Hill, where astronomer Tânia Sales Marques gave a short presentation. read more »

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