Emporia was built as part of a comprehensive renovation project in the Hyllie area in the southwest of Malmö. Once this part of the city was considered almost the outskirts, but the construction of the underground high-speed tunnel Citytunneln significantly brought it closer to the historical center, and now Hillie is actively being built up with modern residential and office complexes.
Occupying a key place at the intersection of the two most active streets of the district, Emporia, whose area is 27 thousand m2, has absorbed all the functions - there are apartments, workplaces, a shopping center, numerous cafes with restaurants, and, of course, a spacious parking. But most importantly, the new building sets the scale and face of the entire area - while designing the corner volume, the architect deliberately gave it an unusual shape that could attract a large number of citizens to the new complex and become the hallmark of the renovated Hilly.
The amber curved volume with a drop-shaped niche in the middle is actually just one of the buildings. The “Eye” is facing the city and connects the panoramas of the center and the Øresund Strait, and behind it a whole town unfolds, consisting of buildings of different heights with landscaped terraces and spectacular cladding made of multicolored glass. The dynamic shape of the opening, as conceived by the architect, echoes the clouds running across the sky, which the constant wind from the strait does not allow to stagnate.
The interiors of the complex are also designed in an emphatically modern and bright style. The shopping pavilions are arranged around several atriums, each decorated in its own color.
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