NATIONAL AWARD OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPING 2013

HIGHLIGHT WORK OF AMOP CONCRETE

Grupoamop producer and supplier of the outdoor concrete Furniture, Ar Puro Rang, which equips the rehabilitation and dynamics of Luanda marginal, project Sponsored by the Society Luanda Bay. This Project was the winner of the National award of Architecture and Landscaping 2013, in the category: Integration of landscaping work.

The award was received by the Landscaping architect Margarida Quelhas on behalf of the Angolan and Portuguese team offices, Costa Lopes (Angola) and Território, Paisagem, Arquitectura (Portugal), delivered in the 9th edition of Urba Verde – Forum for Sustainable Cities.

One of the most emblematic works in Luanda, an enterprise design to mark an epoch of Angola’s development, the bay requalification investment, a maritime walk through over more than 3km, with a cycling way, 10 new squares 3 playgrounds, another’s to practiced sport, 5 street basketball courts and 5 different spaces for cultural events.

The square with Ar Puro range is made by landscaped leisure area, intersected by paved areas, playgrounds, a route stations maintenance and street Basket. It also created a stroll along the wooded path, and a continuous promenade along the bay, where we highlight the collective chairs from Ar Puro range, accompanied by a bike path that "runs" on a technique way.

It was intended to return to Luanda one of their fundamental public spaces, for both urban life and City image, in a Project that will be, really soon one of the hallmarks in the Angola Capital, and where is stands out the Amop Concrete Urban furniture, Ar Puro Line.

This work, developed by the Society of Luanda Bay (whose main shareholders are Sonangol, Banco Privado Atlântico, Banco Comercial Portuguese and Finicapital), gives the body a government decision that defined the redevelopment of this stunning bay and despite being a project that implies higher funding could finance themselves primarily in private banking without recourse to public funds. Grupoamop proposes an overall concept for architecture and landscape architecture, based on a model of industrial synergies and creative. Incorporating the values and vision of the design as a strategic tool in the growth and internationalization in its industrial business areas, street furniture, private furniture, wall coverings and floors, with clients, architects and designers.

In the 40th anniversary, Grupoamop is thanks the preference and congratulates the Angolan and Portuguese team for the national award of architecture and Landscaping 2013.