posts tagged ‘zibo 淄博’
DOUBLE HAPPY (8+8=19) | publication
November 5th, 2010 • architectures, movingmemos, writings
Tags: helsinki, publications, zibo 淄博
Double Happy | photo by Hanne Granberg
DOUBLE HAPPY: (8+8=19) Views on Architecture in Finland and China
双喜: (8+8=19) 份对芬兰和中国建筑的观察 is a new review, published by Newly Drawn – a project initiated and run by a group of young independent Finnish architects – curated in cooperation with OK Do. Amongst many contributors, Bert de Muynck | MovingCities wrote a piece called ‘Zigzagging Zibo‘. read more »
Zibo | part IV
September 25th, 2009 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: urbanism, zibo 淄博
Zibo | September 7, 2009
During the third and last day of MovingCities’ recent trip to Zibo we scanned a low-rise residential compound in the heart of the city (by walking) and the industrial Western areas, North-South axis and the railway station (by cab). Final Zibo installment: housing, industry, infrastructure and football. read more »
Zibo | part III
September 22nd, 2009 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos
Tags: urbanism, zibo 淄博
Zibo | September 6, 2009
After moving around in elevators and by foot, we explored Zibo by cab. First we went East. And that for a simple reason: from on top of the city we saw smokestacks and powerplants in the West, while Zibo’s Eastern horizon was dotted with construction cranes. Peri-urban pictures. read more »
Zibo | part II
September 16th, 2009 • 2 comments cities, movingmemos
Tags: urbanism, zibo 淄博
Zibo | September 6, 2009
How to explore the unknown? What to expect from a city that one only knows from growth figures and population projections? Spending the morning zigzagging Zibo, along large avenues, run-down blue facades and rooftops, MovingCities captured impressions from the unimaginable. read more »
Zibo | part I
September 14th, 2009 • 3 comments cities, movingmemos
Tags: urbanism, zibo 淄博
Zibo | September 6, 2009
During our first Zibo-scan we, naturally, roamed rooftops. First stop the Zibo Hotel, second the Fengjing Huatying Business Hotel. Our impressions? A sea of residential blocks, weird uncategorizable Chinese 1980s architecture, non-distinct towers flanking the city’s main axises and a horizon filled with smokestacks. All very very oldskool orthogonally organized, the Russian way. See Zibo from above. read more »
