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ORDOS100 | out of Ordos

Saturday, June 28. Sunday, June 29. The last days of the second phase of ORDOS100. Day 4 continued with the critiques of the 36 proposals that were previously presented. Day 5, Mr. Cai, the client, and FAKE Design offered the architects a late afternoon dinner, toasted around and wished them a good journey back home.
Followed a last tour through the ‘old Ordos’, taking a 38 kilometers drive to the new airport, while the sun was lightening up the green desert. Architects checked in and flew in two airplanes back to Beijing.

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ORDOS100 | site visit

Friday, June 27. Day 3 of the second phase of ORDOS100. The 36 architects that presented their proposals on the first day received their critiques. The others lounged in the hotel or went for a site visit. Mónica Carriço | movingcities joined the desert trip visiting the site with Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira | SAMI Arquitectos (PT). read more »

ORDOS100 | Ordos City

The ORDOS100-project is located in the Ordos Cultural Creative Industry Park and sits on a plot of 197 ha. This project is part of the planning of a new 155 sq kilometers city in Inner-Mongolia, planned from scratch for a population of 200,000 in the year 2020. An impression of a city under construction.

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ORDOS100 | 100 architects site visit

Desert Dérive or Sand Situationism. The 100 architects involved in ORDOS100 visited the site on April 14. Ground has almost broken, trees have been planted, spring emerges and in comparison with our previous visit, sand has replaced snow.

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Ordos snapshots

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moving elsewhere

Arq’a > Interviews Bert de Muynck & Mónica Carriço: “Acções Patrimoniais – Perspectivas Críticas” (excerto) por Luís Santiago Baptista e Paula Melâneo [PORTUGUESE]

we make money not art > book review: Beyond no.2 – Values and Symptoms edited by Pedro Gadanho (SUN publishers) w/ Bert de Muynck’s contribution: ‘The City Seekers

ArchiNed > Shanghai World Expo 2010 – de Europese Paviljoens Bert de Muynck over Europese paviljoens Expo 2010 [DUTCH]

La Biennale di Venezia > People meet the architect. WANG SHU 12th International Architecture Exhibition – People meet in architecture