Architect firms join forces to design new resort community in Mozambique
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By Vanessa Zhang
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Date: 14 July 2011
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International hotel and resort architects, ReardonSmith, have announced their collaboration with South African architectural and design firm, Savile Row, on a new resort community in Mozambique. The project will be the master planning and design of the resort spanning over 800 hectares (2000 acres) of land and stretching across 1.6 kilometres of sandy beach along the Indian Ocean. The site of the Mozambique project is located on a peninsula that is diverse in vegetation, coastal dune forests, lakes and savanna grasslands with an elephant reserve bordering one side and the ocean on the other. ReardonSmith and Savile Row plan to design and build the resort with minimal intrusion, rehabilitating the landscape and providing opportunity to benefit the local population. When completed, the resort is likely to include a range of high quality accommodation together with varied leisure and conference facilities. A large proportion of the site will be given over to providing a habitat for wildlife and Indigenous flora and fauna.
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