posts tagged ‘shanghai 上海’
Shanghai | Satellite Scan
January 25th, 2012 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: on-the-move, shanghai 上海, urbanism
Line 6 to Holland Town | Shanghai, December 2011
While working on an article, for an upcoming issue of Bauwelt, on the European-themed satellite towns in Shanghai 上海 MovingCities went scanning the suburbs of the city. Taking the subway to the last stops on Line 9, Line 7 and Line 6 we arrived in Thames Town, Nordic Town and Holland Town. The result of this hallucinatory visits will be shared later, for now a couple of images of a sideways Shanghai 上海 as seen from behind the subway window. read more »
Preservation Playground | publication
January 12th, 2012 • movingmemos, writings
Tags: construction, demolition, publications, shanghai 上海
Preservation Playground | MARK Magazine#35
In Baoshan, a district on the northern outskirts of Shanghai 上海 known for its steel factories and shipyards, lays the Wendao Garden 闻道园. This garden covers an area of over 400 hectares and is a place where ancient houses from the nearby provinces of Anhui, Jianxi and Zhejiang are brought in and reconstructed. Last summer MovingCities visited the place and now MARK magazine published the story. Preservation Playground is online. read more »
Shanghai >> Shenzhen
November 14th, 2011 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: aerophotography, on-the-move, shanghai 上海, shenzhen 深圳
Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport New Terminal | November 8, 2011
Last week MovingCities resided in Shenzhen 深圳 to work on a project we hope to inform you soon more about. To us, flying means aerophotography, means measuring progress, seeing land reclamation projects turn into airports, having flash-backs to 2009 when the city was working on preparing the grounds for its new airport. Today, the Fuksas Future is almost there. read more »
Shanghai | GoWest & Rockbund @HKU
November 5th, 2011 • cities, events, movingmemos
Tags: books, lectures, shanghai 上海
Fall 2011 | Under the Skin, Special Lecture Series | HKU Shanghai Study Center, 2011
This week, two lectures are scheduled as part of the ‘Under the Skin‘ lecture series at Hong Kong University’s Shanghai Study Center. On Monday November 7, Daan Roggeveen from the GoWest-project will talk about their recently published book “How the City Moved to Mr Sun” and on Thursday November 10 Mark Randel (David Chipperfield Architects) will discuss the Rockbund project and the meaning of historic building fabric in our cities. read more »
Shanghai | Future Faces
November 3rd, 2011 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: shanghai 上海
Shanghai | October 31, 2011
We write oftentimes about how we live, work and operate in-between cities, how highways and airports have become an existential part of our daily life. Shanghai 上海 is the city we live, the city where unmarried men stage a “protest” on the Metro and luxury home sales are in decline [links restricted to subscribers only] . A city, a trade hub of Asia, pioneering a stricter air-quality monitoring standard. Shanghai is a city with handbook [A Guide to Urban Sustainable Development in the 21st Century], a city where we walk around, scan the sidewalks, a city filled with faces, food and future fads. read more »
