© Xavier Antunes
Architects: Topos Atelier de Arquitectura / Jean Pierre Porcher, Margarida Oliveira and Albino Freitas
Location: Ponte de Lima, Portugal
Collaborators: Sofia Lima, Michael Ferreira, Luís Peixoto
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 2562 sqm
Photographs: Xavier Antunes
© FG + SG Fernando Guerra
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Museum is one of the less well known architectural gems in Portugal. The buildings are part of their own isolated campus in Palhavã, in the center of Lisbon. Architects Ruy Jervis d’Athouguia, Pedro Cid and Alberto Pessoa designed the campus and the buildings in memory of the foundation’s namesake, and both the foundation and the buildings have only grown more respected over the decades. More on the buildings after the break.
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