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Project • By Natureza Urbana • Parks/Gardens
Praça da Saudade 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 H. E. A. De Studio • Offices
Ornamental Center
The history and philosophy of ornament, with their multiplicity of fact and their deep social implications, are subjects so vast that they can only be approached by the aid of a series of assumptions.
The idea of combining several functions in one piece of building is not unusual today when living quarters are comparatively small and space at a premium. More