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Boa Nova Tea House . Leça da Palmeira

photos: © Joao Morgado – Architecture Photography

Renovated Boa Nova Tea House is now a Restaurant leaded by Chef Rui Paula.
It will open as a restaurant only but outside meals period it will be possible to visit the building with guided tours held by Association Casa da Arquitectura. Continue reading Álvaro Siza Vieira

Vitra Promenade . Weil am Rhein

Vitra . photos: © Julien Lanoo

The 500-metre-long Álvaro Siza Promenade is a walkway flanked by hornbeam hedges that passes along the west side of Siza’s 1994 factory building and connects the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron with the Zaha Hadid’s Fire Station. It is conceived as a path with various stations: its sequential ‘episodes’ afford wide-ranging views of architecture and nature. These include an S-shaped common area framed by hedges, the Vitra Slide Tower by Carsten Höller and an archaic-looking double chamber formed from interpenetrating brick and granite walls. Continue reading Álvaro Siza

cork Stools

photos: © pedro sadio & maria rita @that image . experimentadesign

For this project he drew two Stools of different dimensions, mutually coupled and where the cork offers an experience of extreme comfort and impact absorption capacity. Continue reading Álvaro Siza

Faculdade de Arquitectura . Porto

photos: © Clement Guillaume
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Municipal Library . Viana do Castelo

photos: © roberto regatos gómez

This library is located at a band between Lima River and Marginal Street. The building is part of urban plan by Fernando Távora foreseeing the construction of a multipurpose building, two office blocks framing a square with a monument of the revolution of 1974. Continue reading Álvaro Siza