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Project • By Natureza Urbana • Parks/Gardens
Fonte do Bispo Requalification
The architectural firm Natureza Urbana has just completed an extensive urbanrevitalization at the historic center of São Luís – Maranhão, focused on qualifyingpublic spaces, improving the interlocution with the existing heritage and boosting thelocal micro-entrepreneurs market.
The projects were part of a program created to revitalize the historic city center of thestate capital of Maranhão, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).The firm led 3 important renovations: one at ‘Praça da Misericórdia’ (Mercy Square),other at ‘Praça da Saudade’ (Saudade Square) and another at Fonte do Bispo(Bishop's Fountain), an area around a bus station on Vitorino F... More
Project • By BWM Designers & Architects • Shops
A.E. Köchert Juweliere
The historic salon of Theophil Hansen has been restored by BWM down to the smallest detail and adapted for contemporary functions.Where once the jewellery for Empress Sisi was designed, BWM architects, following the principle of a casket, merged the existing historical structures with the new components of the interior into an architectural unit.A true architectural gem
The Viennese jeweller A.E. Köchert is a family-owned company steeped in tradition. For 200 years it has been creating elegant jewellery of the highest quality. The Köchert jewellers delivered jewellery to the Viennese royal court and were the personal imperial jewellers of Emperor Franz Joseph. Empress Sisi caused a stir with her jewellery, and her star-shaped hai... More
Project • By Bricolo Falsarella associati • Housing
A brick house over an old stone barn
The project aimed to convert, for residential use, the rustic annexes of the eighteenth-century Villa Saccomani, located on the moraine hills a few kilometres from Lake Garda and the city of Verona.
Before the project began, the annexes, part of the villa’s prestigious, monumental park, were merely seen as areas of low, architectural value . This negative impact was mainly due to the building, in the twentieth century , of an incongruous extension obtained by elevating walls in concrete blocks on top of the original, picturesque, building which had been constructed with river stone typical of rural buildings of the area.
The project foresaw, in the first instance, the demolition of the twentieth century additions stripping the building to... More