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The new town hall of Trofa, a small city located about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Porto, consisted of the renovation and expansion of an old industrial building. Completed in 2023, Trofa Town Hall was designed by NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, who answered a few questions about...
Cylindrical forms are atypical for residential towers — Bertrand Goldberg's iconic Marina City “corncobs” come to mind as one example — in part because the shape makes it difficult to lay out apartments of various sizes. Student accommodations, on the other hand, are a better fit, given...
A narrow trapezoidal lot pushed Paulo Merlini Architects to be creative with the floor plans and balconies in their design of Boavista 339, a residential building in Porto. The balconies and arched windows define the facade, which also expresses the building's mix of studio and one-bedroom...
The new Álvaro Siza Wing at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal, opens to the public on February 24, 2024, with two exhibitions: Improbable Anagrams, displaying pieces from the Serralves Foundation's permanent collection; and
The new wing of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, will open to the public in early 2024. The museum first opened to the public in 1999 in a building designed by Álvaro Siza, who also added the new wing — appropriately called the Álvaro Siza Wing.
The pavilion exhibits a video art piece from the 32ª São Paulo Art Biennale by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca. Surrounded by the gardens of Serralves in Porto, FAHR’s structure is an architectural object that explores the ambiguity between the presented work and...
The celebratory piece Eclipse marks the 20th anniversary of the classification of the historic centre of Porto as Unesco World Heritage site. A temporary installation, Eclipse is a project by architecture studio FAHR 021.3 who created a sphere that temporarily shifts the centre of the city square...