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Shopping Centre, Port El Kantaoui

Facts

Location Client
Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia El Mouradi

Project details

The location is a popular Mediterranean resort five miles from the ancient city of Sousse, where the medina is a UNESCO world heritage site.

The scheme includes a 30,000 sq m retail and leisure complex, 13,000 sq m hypermarket and parking for 2,000 cars.

Levels of the project respond to the site context and take advantage of views towards Sousse and the Mediterranean, The design includes high level dining terraces and a prominent tower, which acts as an observation point, café and a signage marker for the scheme.

Brief

  • design of a hypermarket based shopping centre as the first phase of a reneration masterplan for an existing manufacturing complex
  • design for future expansion

Results

  • the design draws inspiration from the walls, towers and gardens of Sousse and reinterprets them in a contemporary manner

Integrated services

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