Port Loius Master Plan (Neo town)

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Name: Port Loius Master Plan (Neo town)
City/Country: Port Loius/Mauritius
Use: Master Plan
Status: Approved (Construction to begin soon)
Architects: Andy Fisher Workshop (http://www.afworkshop.com/)

Patel Engg. Bags $1 Bln. Contract From Mauritius Govt.

(RTTNews) - Mumbai-based construction company Patel Engineering Ltd. said its subsidiary had obtained a contract for $1 billion from the Mauritius government to develop the largest waterfront project in Mauritius.

The project envisages development of an integrated township, spread over more than 24 hectares, in the capital cit of Port Louis.

As per the agreement, the company has to develop the master plan in line with the governments intention to establish Port Louis as the commercial hub in the Indian Ocean region.

The project involves construction of tourist heritage center, apartments complex, office buildings, shopping malls, entertainment hub, marine garden, etc., spanning a built up area of over 10 million square feet and will generate gross revenues in excess of Rs.4,500 crore.

The project will be executed by its subsidiary and is expected to be completed within a period of seven years from commencement.

The foundation stone for this mega project is scheduled to be laid by Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam on March 29, 2010.

Patel Engineering Managing Director Rupen Patel said: "This is a landmark and prestigious project, being one of the largest development projects in Mauritius, to be awarded to any company. This unique project will employ about 23 million man hours during construction, and will benefit the local people of Mauritius with abundant employment opportunity.

The company clocked consolidated net profit of Rs.63 crore on revenues of Rs.965 crore for the fiscal year 2009.

At the BSE, Patel Engineering closed Friday's trading at Rs.460.10, up by Rs.18.95 or 4.30% on a volume of around 176,000 shares. The scrip touched an intraday high of Rs.474.00 and a low of Rs.450.00.

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Port Louis master plan to rejuvenate capital city through sustainable design

The Prime Minister of Mauritus Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam has launched the 26 hectare Neotown Port Louis, designed by Andy Fisher workshop. The master plan embraces the opportunity to create a landmark development for the Les Salines district with the aim of reconnecting the city to the waterfront and to strategically encouraging further development of Port Louis.

Working with Les Salines Development, a subsidiary of Patel Realty, Andy Fisher workshop developed a concept to transform and integrate the waterfront site, turning this previously neglected area into Neotown Port Louis containing business, residential, hospitality and retail precincts along with a Tourist Heritage Centre with a total built area of approximately 930,000 sq m with an FDI of US$ 500 million.

The concept for the master plan was inspired by the unique waterfront and city edge location of the site. Drawing from the surrounding context, the concept strategy extends the key neighbourhood street patterns, urban fabric and sight alignments across the site, terminating in a series of public plazas along the waterfront. The plazas form nodal points activated by recreation and cultural activities adjacent a key pedestrian link along the waterfront promenade.

A new ‘green heart’ known as the Marine Park will provide a centrally located public park space and create a clear recreation focus for the development. This major linear park has been designed to connect to the Port Louis waterfront, with vibrant pedestrian friendly parkland and waterfront spaces. A series of streets and pedestrians links increases the permeability across the development with connections to the waterfront. Central to the master plan are environmental sustainable design initiatives to be developed as standard guidelines for the architecture and landscape proposals.

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Wow, absolutely amazing.

What a project.

looks awesome!

Wow!!

Damn, thats looks awesome!

LOVELY! Beautiful renders of a truly beautiful country. :cheers:

Beautiful project in this lovely city

Damnnnn!!!

Not many people know about mauritius because of its island location.......it will get more attention if it was on mainland africa.

Mauritius is just amazing.

WOW, beautiful.

BTW the correct name is Port Louis

Amazing.

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A new 'green heart' for Port Louis from Andy Fisher Workshop

The brief for the Neotown in Les Salines district, Port Louis Mauritius, offered a unique opportunity to create a new mix use landmark development for the port city. The proposed master plan covering an area of 26 hectares embraces this opportunity by reconnecting the city to the waterfront, creating a new focus for the city as well as strategically encouraging further development of Port Louis.

Andy Fisher workshop developed a concept to transform and integrate this previously neglected waterfront site into a 930,000 sq m development that incorporates a cruise terminal, tourist facilities, a marina, hotels, retail, commercial and residential precincts. The concept for the master plan was inspired by its unique waterfront location. Drawing from the surrounding context, the concept strategy extends the urban fabric of key neighbourhood streets and sight alignments across the site, terminating in a series of public plazas along the waterfront. These plazas form active nodal points along the waterfront, activated by recreation and cultural activities along the key pedestrian promenade linking back to the CBD of Port Louis.

A new ‘green heart’ known as the Marine Park will be the new civic and cultural focus for the development and the city, providing a significant new public space and recreation destination for the community. This major linear park has been designed to reconnect the historic Robert Hart Gardens to the waterfront, with vibrant pedestrian friendly parkland planted with familiar indigenous species.

A series of streets and pedestrians links increases the permeability across the different precincts with connections to the park and waterfront. The use of local building materials in the architecture and landscape will further help tie this development to the local context. Central to master plan concept are environmental sustainable design initiatives which will be developed throughout both the landscape and architecture proposals.

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could be anywhere in the world, no local architectual context. Ive been to Mauritius and its an amazing island and the downtown has a colonial, whitewashed feel, but this is just plain horendeous as far as respecting its enviromental location. Sad as it could have been so much better

Very nice pictures :)

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