Portuguese practice EXTRASTUDIO, in collaboration with landscape architects Oficina dos Jardins, has won the competition for Tavira’s Island Regeneration, in Algarve, the southern coast of Portugal. Launched by Sociedade Polis Litoral Ria Formosa in collaboration with Parque Expo and Tavira’s Municipality, the project includes the existing infra-structures and landscape re-qualification. The project shall be finished until the end of 2010; construction is scheduled to start on the fall, 2011.
Sociedade Polis was generated by Parque EXPO, the public company responsible for the construction and management of Lisbon’s EXPO 98, and which as since then the major players behind the successful urban regeneration in all major Portuguese cities, using architecture as a key element in the modernization of public space. Since 2009 both companies have been addressing the coastline re-qualification of Algarve.
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