June 8th, 2009
Every Street is a Mosaic
Even the most ordinary street in Lisbon is a mosaic. The stones may be simply-hewn blocks of some kind of gray rock, or elaborate black and white designs, as found in the praças. Obviously putting them in place and maintaining them is labour-intensive, but they have the advantage of providing an easily-repaired surface that also allows rain water to percolate into the ground.
Tags: Lisbon, Paving, Urban Design
Related Posts
You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.
RSS 2.0
Montreal Apartments
Rodrigo Ribeiro says:
Lisbon is really a amazing and unique city, portuguese pavement is art in the streets, patterns and mosaiacs are everywhere, sidewalks, plazas, all over the city.There´s also portuguese pavement in other cities like Oporto, Ponta Delgada (Azores),Coimbra and Faro (Algarve).Roc2c is a portuguese brand, interested in new forms and artistic design for portuguese pavement all over the world.
Check out our recent works
http://roc2c.blogspot.com/
June 30th, 2009 at 5:01 am