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Crimson New Town Research | Daxing field trip

movingcities — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:20:52 +0000

Daxing District | Beijing The last stop of the New Town-research, conducted by Crimson Architectural Historians, was the satellite town of Daxing – located twenty minutes driving south-west of the center of Beijing. Not to be confused with the industrial city of Daqing (founded in the early 1960s as the first of a series of [...]

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Crimson New Town Research | Baiwangzhuang field trip

movingcities — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:04:28 +0000

Crimson Architectural Historians in Baiwangzhuang | Beijing On Saturday February 14, MovingCities and Crimson Architectural Historians explored the current state of the Baiwangzhuang residential area in Beijing. As part of Crimson’s worldwide research project on the phenomenon of the New Town, we scanned this 1950s residential area. Located in the West of Beijing, in-between the [...]

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Crimson New Town Research | Mentougou field trip

movingcities — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:55 +0000

Crimson Architectural Historians in Mentougou | Beijing On Friday February 13, MovingCities went on an embedded urban research trip with Crimson Architectural Historians. Throughout the past one and a half decade this Rotterdam based collective has developed an intriguing hybrid practice that takes the contemporary city as its object. Their ongoing study is a worldwide [...]

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