tahiti center

The Tahiti Center will host banks, offices, commercial spaces, apartments, restaurants, bars, recreational activities, an outpatients clinic, University facilities, conference centers.

Different entities are joined together in order to benefit reciprocally from shared advantages and synergies. The project will have a double-sided track of development: one to be realized in joining the Platêau with the Tahiti Center, with the direct connectors of the panoramic elevators, equipped with emergency stairwells, and the other, through a direct connection to the future green spaces of the Amílcar Cabral Square.

All of this will be well balanced by the forms within a single large-scale complex, having infrastructural links that will allow for effective connections to the important parts of the territory. There will be efficient interconnections established between:

  • the historic centre (Platêau)
  • Avenida Brandão de Melo
  • the new commercial, office and residential buildings (the Tahiti Center)
  • the central pivot of a newly envisioned social reality (Amílcar Cabral Square)
  • the institutional structures (the Auditorium and National Library)
  • the main artery of the city (Avenida Cidade Lisboa).

Tahiti Center is to be subdivided into four divisions that are distinguished by the presence of two roads, with perpendicular pedestrian walks between them, dense with commercial activities and open to the public.

The below-ground level is to host the parking area for all motor vehicles. A large flight of steps will create a gradient at the level difference between Avenida de Melo and Tahiti Center, consenting yet another open access route. Another stairway will connect the Tahiti Center area with the Cabral Square, which, combined with the towers of the building complex, will form an articulate profile that concentrates visual attention to the area and contributes to increasing its sense of prestige.

Tahiti Center will fully value the surrounding environment to create an open dialogue with the capital of Cape Verde at present, while introducing itself to the future as a predominant part of the city.