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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 ...

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). Ordos Project: parallel to the ORDOS100 website, there ...

Thursday June 26. Day 2 of the second phase presentation of ORDOS100. Another 36 architects presenting another 36 villa's. From 9 o'clock onwards the bombardment started, only to end 9 hours later. At the end of these two days, one starts wondering what one has seen, what the messages were that came through. One couldn't help that villa's started blurring into each other, the borders between kitsch and criticality ...

Wednesday June 25. Day 1 of the second phase presentation of ORDOS100. 36 architects, 36 villa's, 36 presentations, 36 thousand square meters of creative thinking. A bombardment of ideas on a plot somewhere in Inner-Mongolia. 9 hours of words and images. Interrupted by a lunch break. In the center of the meeting room one finalized model, featuring the 100 proposals, around which the architects gathered. All architects and ...

ORDOS100 concluded its third and last meeting. Between June 24 and June 29, the 72 international architecture offices of ORDOS100 phase II came back to Ordos, Inner Mongolia. movingcities attended this meeting, absorbing 72000 square meters of villa's in five days, that is 600 square meters an hour. An impression of the opening evening.

Bert de Muynck | movingcities publishes "ORDOS100: avant-garde architecture in the desert" on the ArtForum Chinese website. A short impression of the phase II meeting in Ordos and the site visit with the desert designers.

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.

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.

ORDOS100 is entering its next level. The architects involved in phase II gathered with the ones of phase I for a Sunday morning question and answer. 100 architects from 30 countries in one room in Ordos. An impression.

A FAKE festival of forms. 28 presentations of 1000 square meters villas in one day. All to be built. By "the international architects". Only in China. Only in Ordos. Almost live, the first echography of a cadavre exclusive in action.