movingcities.org » shenzhen 深圳 http://movingcities.org under re-construction!!! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 Shenzhen Architecture Biennale | Exhibition http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-architecture-biennale-2011/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-architecture-biennale-2011/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:38:19 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=12149 Atelier Deshaus | SZHK Biennale 2011 The theme of the 2011 Shenzhen-Hongkong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture is “architecture creates cities. cities create architecture”. Around this quasi-elusive statement, an arbitrary exhibition – curated by Terence Riley – was created. There were some good ideas and installations [our selection below], but all in all it felt vague. Loose. [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-architecture-biennale-2011/feed/ 0 Finland/Shenzhen Architecture Tour | day 2 http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/finland-shenzhen-tour-day-2/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/finland-shenzhen-tour-day-2/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:41:10 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=12056 Finland-Shenzhen Architecture Tour by MovingCities | December 8, 2011 The second day [see day one] of the Finland/Shenzhen Architecture Tour presented a diverse Shenzhen 深圳. Starting in the VANKE Shenzhen headquarters, the group of 20 Finnish architects moved on to Shenzhen Tower (441.8 meter) and via the Shenzhen University – Dept. Arch ended up in [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/finland-shenzhen-tour-day-2/feed/ 0 Finland/Shenzhen Architecture Tour | day 1 http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/finland-shenzhen-tour-day-1/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/finland-shenzhen-tour-day-1/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:06:08 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=12050 Finland-Shenzhen Symposium on Architectural Competitions | December 6, 2011 During the opening week of the 2011 Shenzhen-Hongkong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, MovingCities toured a group of 20 Finnish architects around in Shenzhen 深圳. The first day of the two-day program [see day two] started in the Shenzhen Center for Design 都市实践 with a discussion/presentation on [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/finland-shenzhen-tour-day-1/feed/ 1 FI-SZ Symposium on Architectural Competitions http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/fi-sz-symposium-arch-2011/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/fi-sz-symposium-arch-2011/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:13:08 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11763 Finland-Shenzhen Symposium on Architectural Competitions | Shenzhen 6th Dec 2011 MovingCities presents/organizes/debates tomorrow, Tuesday DEC 6th – at Shenzhen Urban Planning & Land Resources 深圳规划大厦, the ‘Finland-Shenzhen Symposium on Architectural Competitions’ 深圳×芬兰建筑设计竞赛座谈会邀请. The symposium is hosted by the Shenzhen Center for Design 都市实践 and supported by Helsinki World Design Capital 2012. Info, background and program [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/fi-sz-symposium-arch-2011/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | ‘Architects In The House’ party http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen_architects-in-the-house_fi/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen_architects-in-the-house_fi/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:42:30 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11702 Architects in the House - Finland's architecture party | 2011 SZHK Biennale MovingCities proudly invites/supports/presents the ARCHITECTS IN THE ‘HOUSE‘ – Finland’s architecture party! Tunes and theories by architects-musicians Tuomas Toivonen & Martti Kalliala. Next Wednesday, DEC 7th – at Idutang OCT in Shenzhen – starting at 9pm – they’ll play, perform and plan till [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen_architects-in-the-house_fi/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | Scenes from the Street http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-street-scenes-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-street-scenes-nov11/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:00:58 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11658 Shenzhen | November 12, 2011 On our last day in Shenzhen 深圳, MovingCities strolled the streets, occasionally hovering on top of them, scanning the Super Skyline. Shenzhen 深圳 is not only a city of planning, progress and pompous towers, but foremost a city of people, intimate and public places, of pavements and shifting population patterns. [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-street-scenes-nov11/feed/ 0 Shenzhen Planning Building | Urbanus Architecture & Design http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/spb-urbanus-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/spb-urbanus-nov11/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:01:02 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11653 Shenzhen Planning Building by Urbanus Architecture & Design | November 11, 2011 On Friday November 11, MovingCities paid a visit to the Shenzhen Planning Building 深圳规划大厦, designed by Urbanus Architecture & Design 都市实践. Located inside the building is the Shenzhen Center for Design 都市实践, a newly established NGO institute aiming to encourage and promote innovative [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/spb-urbanus-nov11/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | Super Skyline http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-super-skyline-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-super-skyline-nov11/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:06:44 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11645 Shenzhen | November 12, 2011 We’ve seen Shenzhen 深圳 changing during the past few years. We’ve seen its skyline, alas, reaching for the sky. We’ve seen the 441.8 meter Shenzhen Tower (aka the KK100, architect TFP Farrells) raising up from the ground, being constructed in-between the towers and now finally completed. Earlier this year, when [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-super-skyline-nov11/feed/ 0 OCT | Urbanus Architecture & Design http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/oct-urbanus-nov11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/oct-urbanus-nov11/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:56:27 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=11639 OCT Phase 2 by Urbanus Architecture & Design | November 9, 2011 While in Shenzhen 深圳, MovingCities seems to be almost naturally pulled towards the OCT Loft-area. This creative precinct is the place where we meet people, where we drink and eat, shop, stroll and sometimes sleep. Recently, Urbanus Architecture & Design 都市实践 completed the [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/oct-urbanus-nov11/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 Guangzhou | Delta Four forum [review] http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-delta-four-forum-review-march11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-delta-four-forum-review-march11/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:09:38 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=8063 Delta Four | Guangzhou March 11, 2011 As a follow-up to the announcement of the DELTA FOUR | A Living Museum of Urban History: the Four Cities in the PRD event, we review the day in words and images. The location of the symposium – organized by the School of Architecture | The Chinese University [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-delta-four-forum-review-march11/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | seasonal skylines http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-seasonal-skylines-march11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-seasonal-skylines-march11/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:04:14 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7873 Shenzhen | March 16, 2011 One city, two seasons and three skylines. Cities in-between the crisp and cloudy, cities in-between the fog and the flash. Cities for future fishes. Another chapter, case-study Shenzhen 深圳, in yet another unfinished essay on China’s urban development. Skyline-cities are some of our other favorite cities. In winter, and spring. [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-seasonal-skylines-march11/feed/ 0 Guangzhou | Delta Four forum http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-delta-four-march11/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-delta-four-march11/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:04:17 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7825 Delta Four | Guangzhou March 11, 2011 MovingCities is on its way to Guangzhou 广州 to participate in the DELTA FOUR | A Living Museum of Urban History: the Four Cities in the PRD-forum 三角四方 – 行进中的歷史博物馆: 广州/深圳/香港/澳门 on Friday March 11, 2011. Organized by the School of Architecture | The Chinese University of Hong [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-delta-four-march11/feed/ 0 Guangzhou >> Shenzhen http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-shenzhen-dec10/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-shenzhen-dec10/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:46:36 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=7321 Guangzhou - Shenzhen | December 6, 2010 The second leg of the recent MovingCities travel to the Pearl River Delta was in function of the participation by Bert de Muynck in the 2010 Shenzhen International Conference and UNESCO Creative Cities Network-conference [more information on the Shenzhen Design-website]. So, on Monday December 6, we left Guangzhou [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/guangzhou-shenzhen-dec10/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | highway snapshots http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-snapshots-june10/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-snapshots-june10/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:46:22 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6526 Shenzhen | June 28, 2010 A quick glimpse of Shenzhen (深圳) while driving from the West to the East, from the OCT Art & Design Gallery to the Vanke Center. Related news & readings: ‘Shenzhen house prices hamper growth‘, ‘Shenzhen Stock Exchange Tops Out‘, ‘Shenzhen Low Carbon City‘(pdf alert!), and  ‘Shenzhen ups property controls‘. Shenzhen [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-snapshots-june10/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | Vanke Center by Steven Holl http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-vanke-center-holl-2/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-vanke-center-holl-2/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:42:16 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6492 Vanke Center by Steven Holl Architects | June 28, 2010 While in Shenzhen (深圳) last week, MovingCities – along with Ole Bouman [director NAi] – paid a visit to Steven Holl’s Vanke Center. We were there last December to attend the opening of the “URBANISMS Steven Holl + Li Hu: 4 Projects in China“-exhibit [see [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-vanke-center-holl-2/feed/ 2 Shenzhen | Taking A Stance http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-tas-june10/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-tas-june10/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:03:17 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=6336 Taking A Stance | Beijing, April 27 2010 This weekend, MovingCities will be in Shenzhen to be part of the opening and symposium of the China-touring ‘Taking A Stance’-exhibition. After Shanghai and Beijing, the NAi-exhibit will land in Shenzhen presenting 8 critical attitudes in Chinese and Dutch architecture and design featuring OMA, URBANUS, Ai Weiwei, [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-tas-june10/feed/ 2 Shenzhen | Vanke Center by Steven Holl http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-vanke-center-by-steven-holl/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-vanke-center-by-steven-holl/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:56:27 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=4487 Vanke Center Shenzhen by Steven Holl Architects 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 [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/shenzhen-vanke-center-by-steven-holl/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | SZHKBiennale snapshots http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/szhkbiennale-snapshots/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/szhkbiennale-snapshots/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:21:03 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=4444 Immediate City by OURGROUP & Zhang Liang | 2009 SZHKBiennale exhibition venue under Shenzhen Civic Square | 2009 SZHKBiennale Knowledge as Infrastructure by URBANUS Architecture & Design et al.| 2009 SZHKBiennale Model Cities by DRDH architects | 2009 SZHKBiennale Demolition Relocation by Liu Xiaoliang | 2009 SZHKBiennale 100 Days of Stories by GoWest Project | [...]

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]]> http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/szhkbiennale-snapshots/feed/ 0 Shenzhen | SZHKBiennale opening day http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/szhkbiennale-opening-day/ http://movingcities.org/movingmemos/szhkbiennale-opening-day/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:52:59 +0000 movingcities http://movingcities.org/?p=4399 2009 Shenzhen Architecture Biennale | December 6, 2009 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 [...]

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