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Good, Bad, and Ugly at the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture

First published at RedBox Review. Text by Robin Peckham The 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, affectionately known as “shuang shuang zhan” to its devotees, is now open in full force across a number of sites in Shenzhen. Projects span a range of methodologies, curatorial frameworks, and goals, not to mention venues: [...]

Architecture of the WEAK!

Text by Robin Peckham As mentioned previously, one of the densest and most ambivalent projects in the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture is the “Bug Dome” pavilion installed on the outdoor space northeast of the Shenzhen Civic Center. The sculptural space is designed by WEAK! Architects, a collective consisting of Hsieh [...]

Biennial as Limit

Text by Robin Peckham The 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (not to be confused with the similarly named but politically distinct 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture on the southern side of the border) opened yesterday in the environs of the Shenzhen Civic Center. Extraordinarily distributed and only [...]