Fundacio de Serralves
Porto, Portugal
Alvaro Siza Viera, Architect, 1991-1999

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I'm not usually a big fan of tiles being used on a facade (which would lead to the question of the wisdom of travelling to Porto to look at architecture), but in this case I really liked it, mostly due to the (intended) imperfection of how it was laid. The resulting texture was great, due in part to the shadows which the individual tiles cast.

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Porto, Portugal, 2013

still waiting for somebody to do my homework for me and tell us who designed this. My bet is Siza

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I am pretty sure that this is a project (yet another) by Alvaro Siza, but haven't been able to give it a positive ID yet. Anybody know?

And no, this is not you either, Darren.

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Vodafone Headquarters
Avenida da Boavista
Porto, Portugal
Barbosa & Guimarães arquitectos, 2009


It just somehow didn't seem right to leave this building without having shown it a) as a whole and b) within its urban context.

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