Macau Digital Mapping: Georeferencing and Visualizing Urban Data
Ar. Nuno Soares and his team at CURB – Centre for Architecture and Urbanism developed the research project “Macau Digital Mapping: Georeferencing and Visualizing Urban Data”, funded by the Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT). The project consists of a digital platform with interactive map cartography in which statistical data from Macau is centralized, treated…
Exhibition | ‘Illustrated City’ Opening and Workshop
Imagining a city as a white canvas ready to be painted by everyone who lives in it might be a metaphorical concept, but CURB – Centre for Architecture and Urbanism tried to give live to that idea. Curated by Ar. Nuno Soares, the “Illustrated City” exhibition and workshop invited everyone, from kids to grown-ups, to…
Urban Thinkers Campus 3.0 Macau
CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism partnering with UN-Habitat and the World Urban Campaign hosted the Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) 3.0 Macau. This served as a platform for debating the theme ‘Density For The Common Good: Implementing The New Urban Agenda’. This initiative from UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign intended to discuss the quality of…
“The Entrepreneurial City” in Hong Kong
The International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) developed one more annual conference and this time’s main theme was “The Entrepreneurial City”. After nine successful conferences around the globe, it was time for Hong Kong to receive IFoU and discuss social, economic and environmental challenges from a design and architecture perspectives. “How to create urban prosperity and…
Keynote Speech at Cross-Strait Architectural Design Symposium 2017 in Hong Kong
Ar. Nuno Soares delivered a Keynote Speech at the Cross-Strait Architectural Design Symposium 2017under the theme “Shaped by Use – Individual Designs Reshaping the City. Organized by The Hong Kong Institute of Architects, CADSA is a high profile event that brings together prominent architects and scholars from overseas, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.…
Speaker at Joint ACE-EAAE Symposium in Rome
Prof. Nuno Soares was speaker at “Education and Practice – The Future Architect” joint ACE-EAAE symposium organized by the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE), that took place in Rome, Italy, on May 6th 2017. Prof. Nuno Soares presented “Asia Urban Lab – Comparative Studio”, under the panel…
Hong Kong Urban Thinkers Campus 2.0
The second edition of the Hong Kong Urban Thinkers Campus, an initiative of UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign, was held at the AIT Building at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism among Civic Exchange, Clean Air Exchange and Designing Hong Kong were some of the partners involved. The…
INFILL – Creating a community center at Pau Kung Miu
CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism, the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, and the Chiba Institute of Technology, Tokyo organized the “INFILL – Creating a Community Centre” Workshop between the 27thand 31stof March. Ar. Nuno Soares, director at CURB, Thomas Daniell, Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Saint Joseph, and…
Post Industry Urban Design Workshop by CURB x CUHK
CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism joined the Master of Science in Urban Design program from the School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and organized the “Post Industry Urban Design Workshop”, held at Ponte 9 – Creative Platform. The “Post Industry Urban Design Workshop” is a project aiming to address Macau’s…
Macau Reframed: The City, Its People and Their Trace at Mandarin’s House
This exhibition is part of the winning project of the design and curatorship competition for the Macau pavilion at the 2015 Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale [UABB 2015], which was held in Shenzhen between 3 December 2015 and 28 February 2016. This project is coordinated by CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism, curated by Nuno Soares,…
ARCASIA Roundtable on Architectural Education in Asia – Future Challenges and Visions
The AAM together with the ARCASIA Committee of Architectural Education (ACAE) organized the “ARCASIA Roundtable on Architectural Education in Asia” in Macau on the 25 September 2016. Under the theme “Future Challenges and Visions”, the roundtable debated the way forward to improve architectural education standards and cooperation amongst ARCASIA countries. The event was convened by…
SHAPED BY USE: Individual Designs Reshaping the City – Collateral Exhibition at UABB 2015
“Shaped by Use: Individual Designs Reshaping the City*” was a spatial installation by Nuno Soares that was selected as a Collateral Exhibition of the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Shenzhen). It was hosted in Macau at Ponte 9 Creative Platform from 16 January to 13 February 2016 with the support of CURB Center for Architecture…
Macau Reframed – Macau Pavilion at UABB 2015 Bi-city Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Shenzhen
“Macau Reframed: The City, its People and their Trace” was the title of the Macau pavilion at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen that took place between 4 December 2015 and 28 February 2016. This project, coordinated by CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism and curated by Nuno Soares, was the winner…
Waterlink Architecture Workshop
“The Waterlink Architecture workshop: Connecting Cities with Water” organized by CURB – Center for Architecture and Urbanism in partnership with the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and the University of Saint Joseph, Macau was held at CURB and brought together 24 participants from Portugal and Macau. The initiative was coordinated by Joaquim Ramos de Carvalho, Vice-Rector…