Artur Andrade cinema, music theatre, restaurant, theatre 14. Paulo Freitas & Franciso Soares Dias apartment, commercial space, housing, renovation

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1 porto Projects 31 Created 29-Jul-09 By Elena Lluch, Valencia, Spain Porto Cenário Bar Porto, José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira cafe, bar Casa da Musica Atelier Siza, Souto de Moura, Fernando Távora Café do Cais Serralves Museum Bouça Housing Complex Casa das Artes 7 Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House House Mártires da Liberdade 14 Artists Workshop 15 Almeida Garrett Library 16 Children Library 17 Porto, Paula Santos library 8 Guindais Funicular 18 Porto, Adalberto Dias funicular, tram station 9 Trindade Subway Station 19 Porto, Eduardo Souto de Moura subway station 10 Housing Complex 20 Porto, Adalberto Dias commercial space, housing 11 Porto, Eduardo Souto de Moura auditorium, cinema, exposition space Porto, José Manuel Soares archive, culture, exposition space, library Porto, anc arquitectos restaurant 6 Porto, Alvaro Siza Vieira commercial space, housing Gosho Restaurant 13 Porto, Virgínio Moutinho atelier Porto, Alvaro Siza Vieira university 5 Porto, Alvaro Siza Vieira auditorium, library, museum ure Faculty Cinema Batalha Porto, Paulo Freitas & Franciso Soares Dias apartment, commercial space, housing, renovation Porto, Cristina Guedes + Francisco Vieira de Campos bar, cafe, pavilion, restaurant 4 Porto, Alvaro Siza Vieira atelier Porto, Artur Andrade cinema, music theatre, restaurant, theatre Porto, OMA - Rem Koolhaas music theatre 3 Burgo Tower 21 Porto, Eduardo Souto de Moura commercial space, office 12 Porto, Eduardo Souto de Moura culture, exposition space Transparent Building 22 Porto, Manuel de Solà-Morales leisure, park, shopping centre 1

2 Housing Block Porto, Eduardo Souto de Moura housing Casa de Serralves Bom Sucesso Market Faculty of Engineering INEGI Water Pavilion 25 Oporto Blood Bank 29 Commercial Building in Boavista 30 Casa Ponte da Arrábida 31 Porto, Edgar Cardoso renovation, restaurant, watch-tower 26 Casa Armanda Passos 32 Porto, Alvaro Siza Vieira private house 27 Porto, Alexandre Burmester exposition space, laboratorium, pavilion Bar Ar de Rio Porto, Eduardo Souto de Moura commercial space, shopping centre Porto, Pedro Ramalho + Luís Ramalho education, university 24 Porto, ARS-Arquitectos market Vila Nova de Gaia, Menos é Mais bar Porto, José Marques da Silva gallery, museum, pavilion 23 She Changes 33 Porto, Janet Echelman art, landmark, sculpture 28 Porto, ARX Arquitectos health care, laboratorium 2

3 photo: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira photo: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira Porto Cenário Bar R do Monchique Porto This project concerns the conversion of a small 50m2 restaurant into a Lounge Bar, at the riverside front in Porto, Massarelos Plastered stucco boards were placed around the walls, hanging over a contrasting dark wooden floor The customer s area was separated from the services and supporting spaces such as the sanitary, the kitchen and the DJ cabin, installed in half of the former restaurant kitchen After all, the DJ is the new coking master over here These fleshy spaces got moulded in orange juicy colours, contrasting with the white/beige painted main room The relation with the beautiful outside landscape was improved by emphasising the presence of the 4 existing windows as absences in the walls, inviting for contemplation The lighting as well the furniture was carefully chosen, out of vintage stores, in order to fulfil the client s will of spending few and creating an atmosphere that could be cosy, slightly minimalistic and sophisticated at the same time photo: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira Floor area/size m² Main designer, Graphic designer Structural engineer José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira Paulo Costa Ricardo Sapage Manuel Sousa Vieira, Luz e Som Agostinho Veloso de Brito Jose_Carlos_Nunes_de_Oliveira_Arc hitect 3

4 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Casa da Musica Avenida da Boavista Porto After Porto was selected one of the 2 cultural capitals of Europe in 2001, an international competition started, for a new concert hall to be positioned in the historical centre The shape directly derived from programmatic-piling-up Two shoe-box concert halls were piled first, the other public programs were added onto the shoe-boxes and the remaining spaces between the public functions were filled up with secondary serving spaces, such as foyers, restaurant, terraces, technical spaces and vertical transport A continuous route connects all functions and remaining spaces by stairs, platforms and escalators: the building becomes an architectural adventure The loop creates the possibility to use it for festivals with simultaneous performances Wave-like corrugated glass is used in both the 1300 seat grand auditorium and its smaller 350 seat counterpart Through material transparency each space reveals its contents to the city; showing an array of performances and cultural events photo: Casa da Música Floor area/size m² Main designer, Interior architect Structural engineer Supplier OMA - Rem Koolhaas Inside Outside ARUP Lensvelt Porto 2001 / Casa da Música boeboe The building is open every day, Mo-Sat: from 10:00-19:00 h; Sunday : from 10:00-18:00 h, The Casa organizes daily guided tours through the buidling: 11:00 and 16:00h For groups of 15 to 35 people To reserve and more info: visitasguiadas@casadamusicacom Metro: Linha Azul, stop at Matosinhos - Estádio do Dragão Or Linha Vermelha, stop at Estádio do Dragão - Srª da Hora 4

5 photo: Sahil Latheef photo: Manuel Montenegro Atelier Siza, Souto de Moura, Fernando Távora Calçada do Ouro Porto The work place of the masters Project is not public! Alvaro Siza Vieira Álvaro Siza Vieira, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Fernando Távora and others manecas photo: Sahil Latheef By the river, West from Ponte da Arrábida 5

6 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Café do Cais Cais Estiva Porto This café is situated along the river Douro in the old city centre It is a simple glazed pavilion, integrated into the lively quayside surroundings When all the glass doors on the south side are opened, the café is transformed into a large, covered open-air terrace The only solid boxes are the two service-zones inside, one for the bar, and the other for sanitary services The pavilion seems to hover above the ground on a small raised platform The terrace has an amazing canopy, resembling the sails of the ships passing by 2000 Cristina Guedes + Francisco Vieira de Campos Animafoz Naomi photo: Naomi Schiphorst If you re in Praca da Ribeira, walk to the river, then turn right it is the glass building on your left, right on the river edge 6

7 photo: João Morgado photo: João Morgado Serralves Museum Rua DJoão de Castro Porto A roughly north-south longitudinal axis serves as the framework for the project Two asymmetrical wings branch off to the south from the main body of the museum, creating a courtyard between them, while another courtyard is formed at the northern end between the L-shaped volume of the auditorium and the public entrance atrium The volume of the main building is divided between exhibition spaces, offices and storage, an art library and a restaurant with adjoining terrace The auditorium and bookstore have independent entrances and may be used when the museum itself is closed The exhibition area is composed of several rooms, connected by a large U-shaped gallery - it occupies most of the entrance level, extending to the lower floor in one of the wings The large doors that separate the different exhibition spaces and partition walls can be used to create different routes or organize separate exhibitions simultaneously Floor area/size m² Alvaro Siza Vieira Fundação Serralves JMMM photo: João Morgado Winter: MUSEUM VILLA PARK Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am to 7 pm Summer: MUSEUM Tuesday to Friday: 10 am to 7 pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 10 am to 8 pm VILLA Tuesday to Sunday (and Public Holidays): 10 am to 7 pm PARK Tuesday to Friday: 10 am to 7 pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 10 am to 8 pmserralves Foundation is closed on Mondays, except for the Auditorium bar and Restaurant/Cafetaria Service and on December 25 and January 1 Near Avenida Marechal Gomes da Costa/Avenida da Boavista BUSES: 201, 203, 207, 502, 504 and Tourism Circuit METRO: Exit at the Casa da Música Station, with connection via the buses 201, 203, 502 and 504 at the Boavista Rotunda Entrance is via the Largo D João III (next to the French School) You can get a architectural tour through the museum on Sundays on 15h00-16h00 Tours are free upon purchase of an entrance ticket to the Museum 7

8 photo: Carlos Gonzalez photo: Mirko Garufi ure Faculty Rua do Gólgota Porto The School of ure of Porto articulates along the limits of an ancient farm right next to the Douro river, creating a wide central space, like an interior square, surrounded by the built volumes This intervention reveals a lot of sensibility with the surroundings, in communication with the river and the sea Stairs and ramps distribute the various accesses to the different levels and functional zones The apparent fragmentation of the build volumes, visible on the project drawings, recovers its continuity in the circulation at the inferior level photo: Victor Popovici Alvaro Siza Vieira Universidade do Porto Taking a bus from the city centre or by the subway till "Casa da Música" and a 10 minute walk Close to Campo Alegre/Rotunda da Boavista At wwwcm-portopt/ you can find a map of Porto Click on 'Mapa da Cidade do Porto' 8

9 Bouça Housing Complex Rua Melo II Porto This project, from 1973, was integrated in the program SAAL in Porto to create social housing for poor people And even though it was made through highly controlled costs, Siza Vieira managed to create a housing complex that is worth studying and visiting In 1977 there where only two blocks completed Nowadays, in 2004, all the blocks were concluded and a new life was given to this complex Instead of having only poor people living here, the low prices and high quality living attracted artists, architects and young couples to settle in With four levels, each block present an articulation in terms of passages that connect the whole complex Together with the housing units there is also commercial spaces and green open spaces 2004, Urban planner Alvaro Siza Vieira SAAL Only the public spaces are public, it's a housing complex Take the subway in Porto till the station "Lapa" it's right there! 9

10 photo: Fernando Guerra photo: Fernando Guerra Gosho Restaurant Avenida da Boavista Porto Gosho Restaurant ('Imperial Palace') is located in the food court of a 5-star hotel The project contains several specific areas for the several types of Japanese food that the restaurant serves, with a total capacity of 101 seats The atmosphere of the restaurant cherishes 'being' in public, through different themes Besides evoking traditional Japanese architecture through a crude and strong presence of the materials, the design creates theatricality with two entrance tunnels and a raised arrival, underlines with white paint the amusing and seemingly irrational posture of the existing structure and nourishes a certain mystery by dissolving the space limits with a permeable curtain, a translucent screen and dark periphery walls (text from architect's website) photo: Fernando Guerra 2007 anc arquitectos Pedro_Loureiro 10

11 Casa das Artes Rua de Ruben A 4050 Porto The building is located in the gardens of a neo-classical mansion in Porto, dating from the beginning of the 20th century The program for the competition proposed a cinema, an auditorium and an exhibition gallery, as well as the conservation of the gardens as they were This is one of the first built projects of Eduardo Souto Moura It's mainly composed of two parallel granite stone walls, with all the programin the middle With a very minimalistic approach, this building is composed of great building details, reminding some of Mies Van der Rohe's characteristics 1981, Interior architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Secretaria de Estado da Cultura Take a bus from the city center that passes on the street "Rua do Campo Alegre", or at the "Avenida da Boavista" From there it's easy to reach it by foot 11

12 Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House Rua de Viana de Lima 4150 Porto The Cinema House represents a significant change in the formal expression of Eduardo Souto de Moura A change of style that approaches this work to the formal expression of the architecture of Siza Vieira This building pretends to be similar to the surrounding houses, having some distortions to fit better on the plot The overall image resembles to the lens of the camera, with dynamic eyes like the insects, searching for the views to the see in between the buildings 1998, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Eduardo Souto de Moura Câmara Municipal do Porto Right now [November 2007] it's on restoration because it was left abandoned since it was finished By bus (number 78) on the "Avenida Marechal Gomes da Costa" till "Praça do Império" and after that by foot following the street "Rua de Bartolomeu Velho" 12

13 Cinema Batalha Praça da Batalha Porto Situated in the heart of the city of Porto, the proposal of Artur Andrade continues his development of the expressionist line with a curve façade that creates movement and great dynamics in tension with the glass façade that defines the corner of the square in a futuristic style It was a very polemic building when constructed (1946) because of the fascist regime Today it works as a lounge bar, a restaurant and a cinema/theatre 1946 Artur Andrade Câmara Municipal do Porto Right in the centre of the city of Porto Metro stations "Bolhão" or "São Bento" and several buses pass by there Easy to get there 13

14 photo: Joaquim Pinheiro photo: Joaquim Pinheiro House Mártires da Liberdade Rua Mártires da Liberdade Porto Located in the centre of Porto, this building has two separate apartments with a garden and a commercial area A new construction has been cleverly settled next to an existing 19th century house, creating an interesting architectural tension, and a rich dialogue in what comes to architectural language and expression The total area of construction is approximately 500 sqmt, integrated in a 800 sqmt garden Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Contractor Infrastructure consultant Paulo Freitas & Franciso Soares Dias EA - Engenheiros Associados ÉPOCA - Gestão de Estudos e Projectos Maria do Céu Mata mjoao-arq photo: Paulo Freitas 14

15 Artists Workshop rua da lada 4050 Porto The building has 4 ateliers for young artists Its location, right next to the river "Douro" has a wonderful view of the "D Luiz I" Bridge, the river and the south coast of the city of "Gaia" This project integrates a system of platforms and granite walls in stories and stairs that connects the building to the street at the ground level The great sensibility and beautifulness of the urban tissue and it's great presence in the site conducted to the option of creating a building that is discreet The object consists in an association of two planes in "sandwich", with glass walls over a platform Project is not public! 1996 Virgínio Moutinho Young Artists Right next to the main Bridge in Porto "D Luiz I" and it stands on the top of the tunnel that gives access to the old city Several Buses to get there and with the "Funicular dos Guindais", the elevator 15

16 Almeida Garrett Library Rua de Entre Quintas Porto This building has two great functions: Public Library and a new exposition hall There is also an auditorium for 200 people determined to conferences, films projection and other shows Its location, between the street "Entrequintas" and the gardens of the crystal palace has an intense presence with the nature giving it a peaceful environment to build a library With a great attention to details, the main façade is covered with pine wood to create a shield from the sun to the exposition rooms The library has to floors with a big opening that connects visually the two levels 2001 José Manuel Soares Câmara Municipal do Porto Monday: Tuesday-Saturday: bus: 601, 302, 200, 207, 201, 501, 601, ZM 16

17 Children Library Rua de Entre Quintas 4050 Porto This small pavilion located between the trees in the gardens of the Crystal Palace has two levels with a double height vestibule The library appears as an "objet trouvé" in the nature, participating in this spontaneous environment The volume resembles an old train wagon, lifted slightly off the ground turning it into a light and welcoming space The used materials were chosen according to the environment, following the textures and colours of the nature The structure and wall panels are made out of wood and the windows are sheets of transparent polycarbonate located at the height of the children with awesome views to the gardens It's a building that fits perfectly in this natural environment 1997 Paula Santos Câmar Municipal do Porto Monday: Tuesday-Saturday: It's located in the gardens of the Crystal Palace You need to search and follow the signs "Biblioteca Infantil" to reach it 17

18 photo: Luís Ferreira Alves Guindais Funicular Av de Gustavo Eiffel 4000 Porto The Funicular connects the Douro river bank to the high town at the Batalha quarter, through the Guindais slope It is the new way that grasps itself to firm stone and ends in a tower facing the river, such as the old wall which leans on a big rock At both edges of this trajectory there are two stations, each one looking for the adequate relation to each part of the town and its immediate environment areas Both stations are entirely built of white concrete, the most brilliant colourgrade in the North: in the subterraneous station at the mountain in order to better reflect the light entering through the vertical accesses and skylights; in the station at the valley, to make reference to the clear plans of the slope The water which runs along the slope and the line of the valley formed by the rails, controlled by little dams that decrease and sustain its speed, falls freely as a cascade in the interior of the station, being then conducted to the river 2003, Urban planner Adalberto Dias Porto Metro do Porto June - September: Sunday to Wednesday - 08h00-22h00 Thursday to Saturday - 08h00-24h00 October - May: Sunday to Thursday - 08h00-20h00 Friday to Saturday - 08h00-24h00 Right next to the famous bridge Luíz I in the heart of the medieval city 18

19 photo: Carlos Dias Trindade Subway Station Rua de Camões 4000 Porto Built to be the central subway station, "Trindade" has an interface that connects 2 subway lines resulting in a big subway station with commercial spaces The materialization of the architecture is almost the space as all the other subway stations in the center of Porto and it reflects a lot of the northern portuguese way of building White walls, granite floors, ceramic tiles, rough granite stone walls, all of these elements appear in the tradicional constructions and were recreated to fit the contemporary design resulting in some very interesting spaces 2002 Eduardo Souto de Moura Metro do Porto from 600h - 100h but it depends of the months By the subway just get to "Trindade" subway station In the heart of the old city right beside the Trindade Church and the city hall 19

20 Housing Complex Rua Orfeão do Porto 4150 Porto Built in white reinforced concrete this housing complex is formed by two separate blocks connected by the mainly vertical access with the lift and the staircase All the floors are composed by an external gallery that connects all the appartments allowing them to face the great views of the sea and to receive good sunlight With a very simple and contemporary language this complex establishes new ways of drawing the housing complex in a simple and elegant manner Project is not public! 2007 Adalberto Dias Located on the western part of the city, right beside the "ring", it's easy to reach if you have the "Ipanema Park Hotel" as a reference point 20

21 Burgo Tower Avenida da Boavista Porto This office complex is located in the Avenida da Boavista, the biggest straight line avenue in that extends from "Casa da Música" till the Sea in West This complex opens a large square between the two buildings, one horizontal and the other vertical The square is occupied by a big sculpture by the Porto architect/sculptor Nadir de Afonso The buildings were drawn with very simple shapes, following the influences of Mies and the Chicago buildings The main interest about the building is its façade Its skin is composed out of a single module that wraps all the volumes That module was studied so it could fit on 2 different ways creating a glass façade and an opaque façade Public access unknown! Floor area/size m², Interior architect, Urban planner Infrastructure consultant Eduardo Souto de Moura AFA Associados Douro Atlântico photo: Filipe Brandão In "Avenida da Boavista", from "Casa da Música" it's a 10 minute walk 21

22 Transparent Building Esplanada do Rio de Janeiro Porto Being part of an urban plan to redesign the westend seafront of the city park, this building serves a shopping centre and leisure centre in combination with seaside activities The entire building is constructed in white concrete and the façade is made out of pre-fabricated white concrete slabs The interior offers some interesting spaces that overview the atlantic ocean, creating a lot of shades and light effects on the afternoon 2002, Urban planner Manuel de Solà-Morales Polis-Porto Right at the end of "Avenida da Boavista" on the seafront at the westend of the city park By bus it's the stop "Castelo do Queijo" 22

23 Housing Block Rua do Teatro Porto This housing block situated on the western part of Porto, in front of the Atlantic ocean is a conceptual reinvention of the traditional urban houses of the XVIII century Instead of a stone structure, here the structure is in steel but is completely visible and separated from the other elements But at the same time there are traditional materials that were used on the façades, transposing the modern architecture into a more site related project Project is not public! 1995, Interior architect, Urban planner Eduardo Souto de Moura On the western part of Porto called "Foz" it's easy to reach From the avenue "Avenida do Brasil" that follows the coast line 23

24 Casa de Serralves Rua de Serralves 4050 Porto Old property of Count of Vizela, the gardens of Serralves are an amazing example of the French style gardens together with the romantic influenced gardens and more recently with the Museum of Contemporary Art beautifully designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira The House of Serralves was the main house of this whole property and began its construction in 1925 to be finished only in 1944 Designed by the Porto based architect José Marques da Silva, author of numerous beautiful beaux-arts buildings in Porto (Central Station, Aliados Avenue, ) This House is a great example of the Art-Déco style of the early 20th century in Europe Designed with a great simplicity and minimalism, the interiors have an enormous attention to the details and the natural light 1944, Artist José Marques da Silva Conde de Vizela It depends of the schedule of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves Mondays is closed The way to get access to the house is by entering the Museum of Contemporary Art of Serralves (by Siza Vieira) and to buy the ticket to the museum exhibition and the gardens The house is located at the gardens 24

25 Bom Sucesso Market Rua de Caldas Xavier 4150 Porto This building was one of the first buildings to be built in this zone In 1951 the works begin to give shape to this project Its structure of reinforced concrete is made out of pre-casted beams disposed in a radial shape The way the entry of light is designed and works in the interior is absolutely incredible and shows a great sensibility in this subject Even after more than 50 years of use, this building remains almost as good as new All the spatial richness is still present and as a market it has a rich social life photo: Carlos Dias 1952 ARS-Arquitectos Câmara Municipal do Porto From around 700h till 1700h Right next to the square where there is "Casa da Música" It's less than five minute walk from the metro station 25

26 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Faculty of Engineering INEGI Via Estruturante do Pólo II 4200 Porto INEGI is an interface Institution between University and Industry, oriented to the activities of Research and Development, Innovation and Technology Transfer It was founded in 1986, as an organization to strengthen the liaison between the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management (DEMEGI) of the University of Porto and industry The INEGI building houses laboratories for experimental work, workshops for components and pre-series development, next to offices and workspaces Floor area/size m² Pedro Ramalho + Luís Ramalho Naomi photo: Carlos Dias 26

27 Water Pavilion Estrada da Circunvalação Porto This pavilion was built to be part of the Expo 1998 in Lisbon It was rebuilt in Porto at the city park The shape of the building stands like if it were levitating from the ground, coming out of a surface of water It's structure is entirely made out of wood 1998, Urban planner Infrastructure consultant Alexandre Burmester José Carlos Gonçalves Águas do Porto By the city park is easy to reach by foot By car/bus there's an entrance at the "Estrada da Circunvalação" 27

28 photo: FG+SG photo: FG+SG Oporto Blood Bank Rua do Bolama Porto The O Porto Blood Bank is built on a detached plot with an irregular polygon in the heart of a city block The building-as-line runs through the polygon s different directions searching its geometry The Blood bank supports all activities of regional blood collection and analysis as well as its partition in 3 components (erythrocytes, plasma and platelets) These components are later to be distributed to hospitals and pharmaceutical industries This typology is new and hardly tested It has a great complexity due to permanent risk of blood contamination Continuous scientific and technological developments force permanent alterations It is therefore a building with an unstable interior, which will undergo frequent metamorphosis throughout its life The building program is a linear sequential process (of blood disassembly) It suggests to be more adequate a low and fluid construction rather than a high building, as pointed out by the neighbouring housing buildings (5 and 6 levels) photo: FG+SG Floor area/size m² ARX Arquitectos Instituto Português do Sangue ARX_ During the week: 830 to 1900h Saturday: 830 to 1300h 28

29 photo: Carlos Dias photo: Carlos Dias Bar Ar de Rio Cais de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia The bar ar de rio is a restaurant and cafeteria with a terrace, situated on the southern river banks of the Douro It s a compact pavilion designed by Francisco Vieira de Campos and Cristina Guedes (Menos é Mais) that s most noticeable for its cohesive architectural and structural concept The «beehive» construction system in hexagonal modules of solid steel becomes the formal pattern for the building s external and internal texture The efficiency of the design is also revealed by its lightness, reducing vertical structures to a minimum and allowing greater transparency The final result is striking for its abstract quality and expressive potential for invisibility or opacity photo: Carlos Dias 2008 Menos é Mais MI_MOA 29

30 Commercial Building in Boavista Avenida da Boavista 4050 Porto The building is designed like a succession of boxes disposed randomly over a platform From the traditional platform-like style building that Souto Moura uses to make, now he rethinks the concept of the box-like architecture, transforming it into a composition of boxes that generate an urban façade over the avenue 2008, Interior architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Depending of the stores The building is located in the Avenida da Boavista right in front of the east entry to the city park There are several Buses going down that avenue 30

31 photo: Miguel Coelho photo: Miguel Coelho Casa Ponte da Arrábida Rua do Ouro Porto Arrábida Bridge (Ponte da Arrábida) was designed by Portuguese civil engineer Edgar Cardoso in 1963 The project mentioned here was included in the design as an observation post to watch the construction works on the bridge The structure has been renovated by architect Miguel Tomé and transformed into a restaurant and bar The building is undoubtedly one of the architectural gems of Porto, but still undervalued Perhaps this is due to the fact that the initial project was designed by a civil engineer, although one of the most notable in photo: Miguel Coelho 1963 Associate architect Edgar Cardoso Miguel Tomé Miguel_Coelho 31

32 photo: Carlos Dias Casa Armanda Passos Av do Mal Gomes da Costa 4150 Porto Amidst horizontal and vertical planes conditioned by the contours of the terrain, memories of Zen gardens and fire signs, the Armanda Passos house has gently risen Designed to be lived in at all hours of the day, when light seeks out shade, and shade opens itself to the light, the house-atelier, commissioned by painter Armanda Passos from the most international name in Portuguese architecture, allows the complicity naturally created by the architect with his work to transpire at each step This is the second dwelling designed by Siza in Porto The first was built in the 1960 s on the Avenida dos Combatentes photo: Carlos Dias Project is not public! 2005 Alvaro Siza Vieira Armanda Passos MI_MOA 32

33 photo: Sahil Latheef photo: Carlos Dias She Changes Praça de Cidade do Salvador 4100 Porto is home to artist Janet Echelman's 'She Changes', a 160-foot-tall waterfront netted wind sculpture suspended above a 3-lane highway roundabout, which received the IFAI International Achievement Award and the Public Art Network's Year in Review Award It is a monumental, red and white, membrane-like sculpture at the Praca Cidade San Salvador in the town of Matosinhos along the shoreline outside of Porto Through her art, Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental public sculptures that respond to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight "I am a sculptor who shapes urban space I prefer the immediacy and challenge of transforming sites that are either unnoticed infrastructure that have faded from public memory, or iconic landmarks that are so overexposed they become habitual background" photo: Carlos Dias 2005 Artist Janet Echelman MI_MOA 24/7 33