After a holiday hiatus (all best for 2010!), MovingCities is serving some leftover snapshots from the Vanke Center Shenzhen by Steven Holl Architects. The visit in December was part of the opening of the "URBANISMS Steven Holl + Li Hu: 4 Projects in China"-exhibition located in what is known as the Horizontal Skyscraper.
MovingCities spend last week in Shenzhen attending the opening of the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (SZHKB). On Sunday, we went sightseeing on the biennale's main spot: Shenzhen's Civic Square, the political and bureaucratic heart of the city. Snapshots of accidental encounters with installations.
A quick follow-up on our Shenzhen-trip of mid-November, as MovingCities is on the brink of returning to the city. In the third and final installment of our PRD-under-construction series (previous Opera House and the Pearl River Tower), we feature the Rem Koolhaas/OMA Shenzhen Stock Exchange project. Close-ups and bird's eye.
Our impressions of Guangzhou are random and scattered. Drifting for four days in-between the GAFA Campus, Tianhe Central Business District, shoppingmalls, rooftops, the Opera House and the Pearl River Tower, we eventually headed to Guangzhou's Eastern Railway Station. Destination Shenzhen.
Highways, elevated roads, bridges, tunnels, waiting rooms, tarmac, airports, cabins, runways, food for flying, turbojet, window seats, clouds, seafood, suburbs, aerophotography, land reclamation, islands, shipyards, masses, gambling, golf courts, corridors and borders. This week we are in the Pearl River Delta. First stop: Macau. A journey in snapshots.
While taking off from Shenzhen, heading towards Beijing, we enjoyed an excellent view over the ongoing expansion of Shenzhen Baoan International Airport. Already having spotted the massive land reclamation from the seaside, the newly built area will cover a total of 13.23 square kilometers and a future new airport designed by Fuksas Architects.
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going so soon? we are under construction...hold on!