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After grinding the euro out Ground Euro, MovingCities went scanning the skyline from two of Brussels' largest urban balconies, the RAC and PARKING58. The RAC (Rijks Administratief Centrum) was the location of Brussels' most brutal buildings. Some video's for disappearing buildings.

The recent plans developed for Ground Euro painfully show the reality of the city of Brussels. On top of that, the infamous Capital of Europe was recently unmasked as the most boring city in Europe and a fire broke out in the Berlaymont building, the European Union commission's headquarters. Between 2003 and 2006 MovingCities followed and participated in the discussion around the presence of the European Union in ...

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.

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.

During our second week of Lisbon explorations we ended up in suburbia. And on the summits, the so-called Miradouro's, of some of the 7 hills. Oftentimes near the end of the evening. Some snapshots from the suburbs of Algueirão and Mem Martins and views from the Miradouro de Santa Catarina, Miradouro da Graça and Miradouro da Nossa Senhora do Monte.

More pictures resulting from circumstantial movements through Lisbon, while ascending and descending the hills and overlooking the city. A continuation of "7 Hills"-project which was presented and developed, in pre-MovingCities times, for the UIA2005 Congress in Istanbul:

Following up on earlier visits to Lisbon, a series of new urban snapshots. Pictures that are the outcome of a leisurely and seemingly detached relation with all things urban. While being disconnected from any form of work, research or commission, we moved without purpose and halted at those spots where crowds gathered, voids were taking over the urban body and on roads leading to the Atlantic Ocean.