movingcities.org » shanghai 上海 http://movingcities.org under re-construction!!! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 Shanghai | Satellite Scan http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-satellite-scan-jan12/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-satellite-scan-jan12/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:18:26 +0000 bert http://movingcities.org/?p=12378 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-satellite-scan-jan12/feed/ 0 Preservation Playground | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/preservation-playground-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/preservation-playground-publication/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:52:14 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=12199 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/preservation-playground-publication/feed/ 0 Shanghai >> Shenzhen http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-shenzhen-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-shenzhen-nov11/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:32:17 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11630 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-shenzhen-nov11/feed/ 0 Shanghai | GoWest & Rockbund @HKU http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hku-gowest-oct11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hku-gowest-oct11/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:13:06 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11417 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hku-gowest-oct11/feed/ 0 Shanghai | Future Faces http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-street-life-oct11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-street-life-oct11/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:00:39 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11410 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-street-life-oct11/feed/ 0 Hong Kong University | appointment http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hong-kong-university-sep11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hong-kong-university-sep11/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:39:35 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=10840 Fall 2011 Special Lecture Series | HKU Shanghai Study Center, 2011 From September 2011 onwards, Bert de Muynck | MovingCities has been appointed ‘assistant professor’ at the The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Architecture, teaching the course on ‘Architecture Theory and History [20th Century]‘ at HKU Shanghai Study Centre. We’re very pleased to [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/hong-kong-university-sep11/feed/ 0 Shanghai | repetitive research http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-research-june11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-research-june11/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:57:18 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9284 Embankment - Pudong Airport | June 22, 2011 Once again, MovingCities is on-the-move, with Pudong airport -our most boring – gateway to China and the world. Three weeks after our last visit, we were forced to go there again and did exactly the same trajectory. We introduce: Shanghai 上海 and the impact of repetitive urban [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-research-june11/feed/ 0 Shanghai >> Hangzhou http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hangzhou-june11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hangzhou-june11/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:19:54 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9159 Shanghai - Hangzhou | June 2, 2011 In March, when confronted with Charlie Chaplin is constructing Chinese cities, we talked about in-between cities. At the time we checked the left-hand side urbanization between Shanghai 上海 and Hangzhou 杭州. Going again on route, we checked the right hand-side. Speeding along smog cities. Not our favorite type [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hangzhou-june11/feed/ 0 Xi’An >> Shanghai http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/xian-shanghai-may11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/xian-shanghai-may11/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:02:13 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=9148 Xi'An | May 31, 2011 There is more to tell and show about our explorations in Xi’an 西安 than what we posted so far. But after barely 30 hours in the city, it was time to move-on, to take off and have a last glimpse of the city from the window seat. It’s again aerophotography-time, [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/xian-shanghai-may11/feed/ 0 Embankment >> Pudong airport | Shanghai http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/embankment-pudong-may11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/embankment-pudong-may11/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:28:06 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=8959 Embankment - Pudong Airport | May 30, 2011 What does a drive from the centre of Shanghai 上海 to the airport reveal about the city? Is the drive up the inclined planes to the elevated highway a foreplay to flying? Snapshots from an early-morning expedition into a jungle of towers, a peripheric patchwork of pylons, [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/embankment-pudong-may11/feed/ 1 Embankment building | may 2011 http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/embankment-building-may-2011/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/embankment-building-may-2011/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 05:02:11 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=8940 View from Embankment Building May 14, 2011 When completed in 1932, the Embankment building was the largest apartment building then built in Shanghai, containing 194 apartments over eight floors. (…) It featured an indoor swimming pool with water supplied from an artesian well which also provided water to the apartments. So writes Anne War in [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/embankment-building-may-2011/feed/ 1 Major Forces | an interview with Sun Jiwei http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/an-interview-with-sun-jiwei/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/an-interview-with-sun-jiwei/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 02:36:10 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=8533 Major Forces | Sun Jiwei | MARK Magazine#31 Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Sun Jiwei 孙继伟, District Mayor of Shanghai Jiading District People’s Government [Jiading New City 嘉定区]. Currently Sun Jiwei 孙继伟 is fully engaged in public administration and plotting the future of a [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/an-interview-with-sun-jiwei/feed/ 0 MOVINGCITIES is moving http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/movingcities-is-moving-april2011/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/movingcities-is-moving-april2011/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:52:36 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=8341 View on Shanghai from MovingCities' studio | April, 2011 MovingCities loves relocating, resettling, packing in and packing out. After living and working for about one and a half year close to Jing’An Temple, MovingCities recently moved to the Embankment Building on North Suzhou Creek Road. Built in 1933-35, and designed by Palmer & Turner, upon [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/movingcities-is-moving-april2011/feed/ 0 Shanghai | DOMUS architecture guide http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-domus-architecture-guide-march11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-domus-architecture-guide-march11/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:39:46 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=8274 Shanghai Art Museum | July, 2010 About one year ago, DOMUS contacted MovingCities with the request to select, photograph and localize in Beijing 北京 and Shanghai 上海 40 architectural projects for an IT application specially intended for i-phone© and ipad© products. The app [$4.99, in English and Italian] is now out! Details and preview after [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-domus-architecture-guide-march11/feed/ 0 Shanghai >> Hangzhou http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hangzhou-march11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hangzhou-march11/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:05:39 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7857 Shanghai - Hangzhou | March 8, 2011 In-between cities are our favorite cities. In-between cities are the so-called “real city’s” hinterland, a space dotted with high-rises, farmland and glass houses, a territory of palace-like constructions and pylons. It is here that the future of farming is being re-invented, where tradition and technology become one. MovingCities [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-hangzhou-march11/feed/ 2 Beijing >> Shanghai http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/beijing-shanghai-march11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/beijing-shanghai-march11/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:49:37 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7846 Beijing - Shanghai | March 6, 2011 aerophotography is not a study of architectural details, but the exploration of urban districts. aerophotography is about cities flipping from being specific to generic to grainy. It isn’t about the silent and fixed gaze, but about turbulence, wings and windows. It is about the cities slowly disappearing while [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/beijing-shanghai-march11/feed/ 0 JR | City Faces | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jr-city-faces-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jr-city-faces-publication/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:56:08 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7796 JR | City Faces | MARK Magazine#30 Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with French photographer and artist – and recipient of the prestigious 2011 TED Prize – JR. The publication is a follow-up on last October’s encounter with the ‘artivist’ while he and his crew [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/jr-city-faces-publication/feed/ 0 Club Donny #6 | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/club-donny6-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/club-donny6-publication/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:50:06 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7543 Club Donny#6 | 2011 Club Donny – a small-scale magazine edited as a strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment – recently launched its sixth issue. Presenting a mix of photography and fiction, the current patch includes a contribution called ‘DAY 1125′ by Bert de Muynck | MovingCities. It [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/club-donny6-publication/feed/ 1 Shanghai >> Guangzhou http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-guangzhou/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-guangzhou/#comments Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:00:15 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7283 Shanghai - Guangzhou | December 5, 2010 Urban China in 30 frames [aerophotography] Shanghai to Guangzhou. Shanghai - Guangzhou | December 5, 2010 Pictures by movingcities.org

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shanghai-guangzhou/feed/ 2 Atelier Deshaus | publication http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/atelier-deshaus-publication/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/atelier-deshaus-publication/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:43:56 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7204 Atelier Deshaus | MARK Magazine#28 Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with Chinese architects Atelier Deshaus 大舍建筑. In the interview, the Shanghai-based office talks about their recently completed projects such as Jiading Kindergarten, Fuel Gas Management Station and Jiansu Software Park. Furthermore they talk about the [...]

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