EMPORIA SHOPPING CENTER, MALME SWEDEN, 2012

Project information

LOCATION: MALME, SWEDEN
PROJECT: EMPORIA SHOPPING CENTER
ARCHITECTS: WINGARDHS
SURFACE: ~27.000 M2
YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION: 2012

Description

Installed 2012 August in Malmö, Sweden. The newly opened Emporia, 27,000 square meters, contains  approx. 200 shops  and with its spectacular architecture is one of the ten largest shopping centers in the world. The Emporia is one of the largest living roofs in the world, each part of it is a dedicated work for ecology and environment protection.

The intensive green roof is designed to meet the biodiversity, in that it is composed of different types of green space with sedum, perennials, grasses and trees. The roof consists of a total of over 30 000 plants.