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City Museum Extension . Mumbai

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Conceptually we created a Mumbai City Museum Extension that doesn’t occupy much of the ground plane of the site. It lifts itself up from the site to create an open connection from the ES Patanwala Marg to the existing museum and to create direct visual connections with the city and the zoological gardens. Continue reading OMA

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45 Souto de Moura

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Private house . Oliveira do Douro

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Eduardo Souto de Moura . full set of pictures: Luis Ferreira Alves

This house in Oliveira do Douro is a truly “rivergazer”. From almost every room, bedroom, living room, terrace and pool you see the Douro river.
As a wedge, embedded in a peak, the river has become almost an obsession, present in almost every space. Over time, I hope it will not turn unsubstantial.
It was an old obsession to make a sloping roof. Although diffident, we were able to draw one in a single slope, that rises up to the water’s edge. Continue reading 45 Souto de Moura