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The caravel voyage, harmonic symbiosis between water and air, has been the focal point of this masterplan spatial composition: an intermodal station integrated to a shopping center located in one of the most iconic bays in the southern hemisphere.

Located by the Guanabara Bay, a strategic point of maritime and land transportation between the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi and represents the renovation of this core inspired by the poetic atmosphere of the charming trip on the city waters.

In the semiarid clime of the Northeast, it is possible to find these fascinating images. They are vertical rock exposures, which defines paradisiac sceneries by the coast, creating unique places of rare beauty. Cliffs of Ceará are part of the Brazilian imaginary and thus, are also the first step of the creative thought of this project.

The reddish colors and the dramaticity involved on the relations of the cliffs with the beach give the tone of this renovation work of a big important retail center: the North Shopping Fortaleza.

Hard stone sculptured by the sea water marks natures and gives the city name. The reef stones house a dense biodiversity, representing the essence of Recife, a symbol of this urban space full of contrasts and meetings: of the rivers with the ocean, plain lands with mountains, the relations between the old and the young, the popular and the erudite, social disparities, freedom revolutions and ideological conflicts. In the celebration of these differences which represents this town, the renovation and expansion project of the most important retail center of Recife was born.

Under the palm tree shade. Scenery of peace and intense nature connection. The feeling related to this imaginary brings the conceptual energy to the renovation project of Shopping Campo Grande.

The chase of a classier and, at the same time, cozy space was the main guideline to understand the palm tree image as the creative epiphany of the project. It is an architecture that breathes this atmosphere of sophistication and above all, serenity.

The pure, simplified and geometric sophistication of the art-decó inspires the architecture throughout the world. Setting identity to uncountable buildings, the vertical lines and the decorative efforts express a singular artistic delicacy. These simple and classy features find space in this renovation project.

An intense work of revitalization develops under this unique style, breathing the outback culture of the locality, establishing a contemporary movement between these atmospheres.