On February 20, the UCCA hosted the unveiling of the design of the French Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, which goes by the theme of "la ville sensuelle". Designed by French architect Jacques Ferrier the idea of the pavilion is to be sensual and ecological at the same time. According to the press release sensuality is expressed by an architecture appealing to the five senses, while ...
With less than 500 hundred days before opening, the 2010 World Expo site in Shanghai doesn't feel like any other ordinary construction site in China; although a trained and experienced 'construction tourist' might sense a familiar pre-Beijing'08 Olympic odor filling the surrounding area. Exploring both expo areas along the banks of the HaungPu River, we ran into fences and walls, strolled over deserted plots of lands, climbed a ...
On our third day in Shanghai we walked to the north-western corner of the Old French Concession. Moving from history to highrise, we suddenly found ourselves overlooking the city from on top of the City Hotel Shanghai and were confronted with a sprawling wall of skyscrapers featuring at its bottom a mish-mash of shops. Walking further in the direction Yan'an Xi Lu subway station, the metropolis started shifting ...
December 25. On our second day in Shanghai we went exploring the western edge of the Old French Concession. Moving from inside Shanghai's historical area we soon entered a territory of hypermalls, housing blocks and highways.
On December 24, MovingCities landed in Shanghai. Less than 500 days prior to the opening of the 2010 World Expo, the city's ambitions can be seen everywhere. The featured theme of the expo 'Better City – Better Life' is today spread out seemingly evenly over the Shanghainese metropolitan territory. Similar to the way the 2008 Olympic Games 'One World, One Dream' theme, transformed Beijing for a couple of ...
Big on concept, the QingPu Thumb Island by MADA s.p.a.m., lies in the middle of an artificial lake an hour outside Shanghai. We've all seen the 'wavy-roof-becomes-landscape' idea before, however several bizarre moments break this conceptual clarity making a building full of unexpected spaces, between, under and around. Perhaps some of the most interesting being created accidentally due to whimsical changes in program during the early stages of ...
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