Ocean Village is a mixed-use marina, residential, business, and leisure development in Gibraltar, in the North end of the Iberian peninsula. The project features 316 residential apartments, over 250 marina berths and extensive business accommodation. Construction of the first phase of Ocean Village commenced in 2006, with the latest completed addition of the World Trade Center in 2017. The current recreational facilities within the overall complex include two casinos, numerous eateries, and bars and the Sunborn Yacht Hotel. Due for completion in 2019 are a further 244 apartments with future plans to incorporate additional superyacht berthing and a waterside villa complex. The marina is paved in a Portuguese pavement style.
Ocean Village, Gibraltar
Sunset as seen from Ocean Village.
Aerial View of Ocean Village Mixed Use Marina Complex
Portuguese pavement, known in Portuguese as calçada portuguesa or simply calçada, is a traditional-style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal. It consists of small pieces of stone arranged in a pattern or image, like a mosaic. It can also be found in Olivença and throughout former Portuguese colonies, especially in Brazil. Portuguese workers are also hired for their skill in creating these pavements in places such as Gibraltar. Being usually used in sidewalks, it is in town squares and atriums that this art finds its deepest expression.
Portuguese pavement: image of the seal of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, featuring Wisdom
Some styles of Portuguese pavement are: irregular pavements, thought to be the oldest style crushed pavement, similar but with more spaces between the stones classic style, with one primary diagonal and one secondary, both at 45 degrees to the adjoining kerb and/or wall. linear pavement, with stones aligned in parallel files circular pavement hexagonal pavement artistic pavement, with specific forms and/or highly contrasting stones large wavy pattern
Portuguese pavement in Paulista Avenue, São Paulo in 2008. This section has since been replaced with concrete sidewalks. Traditional Portuguese pavement has gradually been retired from the city's landscape under urban reforms.
1. Preparation of stones