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Building a new Portugal
(Jan. 19, 2004) A determined team using internal brand synergy has put the biggest building project planned in Portugal this year in the hands of Hydro Aluminium.
 BIG NAME: Palmela Village has been projected by one of Portugal's leading architects, Tomás Taveira. (Photo: www.palmelavillage.com) |
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The Palmela Village project near Lisbon is the biggest project planned in the country for 2004. Hydro Building Systems Portugal is already at work as supplier of the project's extruded aluminium systems.
The company, which based its product bid on the Domal system, won the project's first 437 houses - involving around 160 metric tons of aluminium to be supplied during the first half of this year.
Palmela Village is described as a four-star touristic resort, with individual houses and apartment buildings projected by one of the leading Portuguese architects, Tomás Taveira. On the project website, Taveira writes that "over the last 20 years, the Lisbon metropolitan area has suffered from de-urbanization, which implies, on one hand, the loss of urban environmental and anthropological values, on the other hand, an abnormal increase in low-quality construction and an increase in urban disorganization without any sort of articulation between home and work, as well as absolute chaos in terms of social infrastructure, namely: education, health care, assistance and culture.
"The present plan, designed for the area called "Quinta do Anjo," aims at being an act of culture, which, in a certain way, can be seen as an example of a revisited idea of urban culture: the notion of Garden-City."
Hydro Building Systems Portugal is part of the Extrusion sector's Building Systems business unit. Hydro is the leading supplier of extruded aluminium systems in Europe with its three major brands: Domal, Technal and Wicona.
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