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07/09/11

Square of Liberty Avenue in sidewalk design

details of the design in sidewalk

Avenida Liberdade, Lisbon - Portugal

Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

23/05/11

Avenida Liberdade in Portuguese Pavement

Avenida Liberdade, Lisbon - Portugal

Avenida da Liberdade

Shops, hotels, some of the best coffee shops, esplanades, theatres, universities... You will find everything here and more! This is the Avenue of Liberty, synonimous with elegance, fashion and motion ... like a living vein that makes the connection between Pombal Marquis Square and downtown Lisbon.

This is one of the most (if not the most) important avenues in Lisbon and is also the central point for offices, centenary trees, international fashion shops and thousands of "passing-through" workers.

Being a good place for a walk, make sure you take a look at the ancient tailor shops, followed by internationally-known brands like Calvin Klein, Timberland, Massimo Dutti, Armani, Burberrys and Adolfo Dominguez. Walking the Liberty Avenue was once a social custom synonimous of elegance and today still is!

If you feel tired, just sit at one of the local esplanades with the traditional white wrought iron chairs and have a drink, whilst you take a moment to appreciate the amazing work the Portuguese paviours have done in this area.

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Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

10/05/11

Center design of a sidewalk on Avenue Liberdade in Lisbon

Avenida Liberdade, Lisbon - Portugal

Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

16/12/10

Pedestrian Zone of Quarteira - Algarve

Boardwalk in cobblestone, with palm trees. It is a pedestrian zone par excellence, with many cafes and restaurants.

葡萄牙路面

Photos: Celso Gonçalves

08/10/10

"2 squares" Cobblestone artistic pavement

Portuguese pavement driveway

Our latest work, was to pave access to private housing in cobblestone. The major area was made of blue granite, also combined white and pink limestone and black basalt.

With a simple and geometric design, a progression of squares, combining the different stones, their colors and textures, we managed to produce a beautiful aesthetic effect.

Benedita - Portugal

29/09/10

Stone Pavement as Art

Stone pavement is an art with a long history. Romans are the most well known for this kind of work, both inside and outside buildings, made with intricate,beautiful and colorful designs but, in Portugal, it wasn't only the Romans that influenced this kind of work, Arabian occupation of the territory, was also important to the development of such technicals.

One of the most important reason for this kind of pavement was to prevent mud on the floor and streets because the space between stones lets the rain water to be absorbed, but there are other advantages like it's durability, to be easy and cheap to repair.

The Portuguese pavement(葡萄牙路面) is a decorative art applied in most of the sidewalks around the country and it's former colonies.

In 1842, military commander Eusebius Furtado ordered inmates in the Castelo de São Jorge, a Lisbon prison, to cover its courtyard with a zig-zag pattern of tiles. The design used on that floor was a simple layout,but for the time, the work was somewhat unusua having driven the Portuguese chroniclers writing about it and attracted so much attention, not only in Portugal, that it was the subject of one of the world’s earliest photographs by Louis Daguerre.

Seven years later, Furtado was given a commission to pave the whole area of Rossio Square, in Lisbon center, with a wavy pattern known as “the wide sea”. After this, the use of calçadas was made mandatory for all new paving projects in the Portuguese capital.

The cobblestone quickly spread throughout the country and colonies and Portuguese masters were asked to perform and teach these works abroad, creating authentic masterpieces in pedestrian areas.

Until early XX century, the designs were made by the craftsmen themselves, the "calceteiros", that were inspired by traditional motifs like armillary spheres, ships, compass roses, ropes, crosses, crowns, crests, emblems, ocean waves, seaweed, starfish, anchors, stylized animals and birds, dolphins and crabs. In the fifties changed and designs began to be made by architects and artists.

The mosaics require backbreaking labor to maintain, making the traditional art of the calceteiros both rare and expensive. It's an arduous labour, where long hours are spent painstakingly laying the stones in a prostrated position.

In November 1986, the Lisbon City Council created the School of pavers in order to renew the actual crew of pavers and promoting the art of paving. Other cities around the country also initiated formation projects in order to train professional men and women, hoping to ensure the "survival" of cobblestone.

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