° ORDOS
http://www.ordos100.com/
°Moving Cities
http://movingcities.org/embedded/ordos100/phase3/
° ORDOS is standing empty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7V3Twb-Qk
China's economy is continuing to grow despite the global recession, helped by a massive government stimulus package of $585bn. But doubts remain whether such strong growth can be sustained by public spending alone.
Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from Inner Mongolia, where a whole town built with government money is standing empty.
° ORDOS: avant-garde architecture in the desert
http://www.artforum.com.cn/angle/596
Bert de Muynck on ORDOS100: avant-garde architecture in the desert. (Artforum. Asiart Archive. 22.04.2008)
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The word “unprecedented” is too frequently used to characterize China’s urban development, a blind and uncritical epithet for a country in the throes of change. But here in Ordos, the “ORDOS100” project seems to be challenging the notion that this word has lost all meaning.
A villa with 100 different rooms, a villa for a narcissist, a new Gourbi Palace, a villa without distinction between inside and outside, a villa with a green heart, a monolith, a villa of different boxes colliding together into one unstable form, a villa defined by the idea of holistic materiality, a villa without a claim on its territory, a villa dug into a dune, a green mountain rising out of the desert. These were a few of the proposals the 28 architects included in Phase 1 of the project.
... Only once the model was fitted out with these first 28 villas did the scope and intensity of the project become clear: a titillating conflict of creativity, a clash of cultures, a collage city where anything, or almost anything, seems to be possible. Afterwards the architects talked about horror, conflict, and creativity, and started analyzing each other’s models and motives.
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After visiting the heart of the new city, we drove to the site. While approaching the site a strange buzz went through the buses: architects always get excited by an empty plot of land they know they will need to domesticate. By now more roads were finished and trees planted. At the edge of the site, the bus stopped and the architects flew out, all running in different directions, touching the sand, taking pictures of dunes, all the while dreaming about the direction this desert could take. Some planted flags (or did someone put them there before?) explaining this act with the same intensity one had when conquering the moon. In the end this wandering came to seem like an act of desert dérive or sand situationism.
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° een overzicht van de nieuwste architecturale projecten in China...
http://www.artforum.com.cn/angle/1394
° China According to China: a set of thoughts by five local architects on China’s current situation and history.
http://www.0300tv.com/2009/06/china-according-to-china-english-subs/#more-1567
China According to China / English Subs
06.19.09 / 2008 · Ai Weiwei · Amateur Architecture Studio · Beijing · CHATCH · China · FAKE Design · Hangzhou · Jiang Jun · Ma Qing Yun · MADA s.p.a.m. · movingcities.org · Ordos · Shenyang · Turenscape · Urban China · Wang Shu · Xi'anYu Kongjian ·
Completely filmed before 2008’s Beijing Olympics and edited right after its ending, China According to China presents a set of thoughts by five local architects on China’s current situation.This special isn’t an effort to portrait a certain scene [the profiles of each character are quite diverse] but to establish four issues that every Chinese architect has to deal with in today’s practice [opening-up, speed, agriculture & education] all of which may set the parameters of future development for Chinese architecture.
° FAKE DESIGN: a self tought architect
JINHUA ARCHITECTURE PARK
http://www.0300tv.com/2009/05/fake-design-jinhua-architecture-park/#more-1087
05.06.09 / 2006 · Ai Weiwei · China · FAKE Design · Herzog & De Meuron · Installations & Pavilions · Jacques Herzog · Jinhua · Pierre De Meuron
Constructed Area 176.000 sqm
Completed 2006
Location Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, China
Published in Domus n°894
° HERZOG & DE MEURON / VITRAHAUS
http://www.0300tv.com/2009/05/herzog-de-meuron-vitrahaus/#more-1097
05.08.09 / 2010 · Commercial Building · Germany · Herzog & De Meuron · Jacques Herzog · Pierre De Meuron · Under Construction · Weil am Rhein
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