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…
USJ featured at Venice Architecture Biennale 2018
“Urban Catalyst – Shaping the Future of Medini City” was a project undertaken by University of Saint Joseph’s Urban Design Studio led by Ar. Nuno Soares and integrated at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. This project was part of Iskandar Puteri 100YC Biennale Session Program and started as a global design challenge put forward to…
Guest speaker at “Towards a Living Waterfront”
Ar. Nuno Soares was a speaker at the Joint AAM / HKIA CPD “Waterfront Conceptual Design and Flood Control Facilities Design Forum”, jointly organized by The Architects Association of Macau (AAM) and The Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA). The event was held on the 23rd June at the Macau Science Center and was co-organized…
USJ meets with Politecnico di Milano Rectorate
Synergies from different academic institutions are always welcomed. In order to potentialize that, University of Saint Joseph’s Faculty of Creative Industries met with the Politecnico di Milano Rectorate aiming to strengthen the links between the two universities in the fields of Architecture and Design. The representatives from the Macau University were Prof. Nuno Soares, in…