Building Initiative was invited by Urban Drift to participate in the exhibition Talking Cities as part of ENTRY2006 featuring innovative international design. The exhibition included installations, projections, workshops and symposia by internationally based architects, designers, artist, filmmakers and writers from 17 countries. The exhibition reflected a dialogue on contemporary urban conditions. The location for the exhibition was the Zeche Zollverein, a former coal mine in the Ruhr valley whose exceptional industrial architecture, inspired by the Bauhaus, has led to its designation as a UNESCO world heritage site. As part of a large scale transformation on the basis of a master plan drawn up by Rem Koolhaus and OMA, the 5 storey coal washing plant became a unique site for ENTRY2006, an inaugural International Architecture and Design Forum comprising four main exhibitions and a series of events between the 26th August and the 3rd December 2006.