Architects showcase three Portuguese works at Mies van der Rohe 2024 | Architecture

The Caminho das Escadinhas, in Matosinhos, the General Silveira Building, in Porto, and the Square and Tourist Office, in Piódão, will be covered in free guided tours open to the public, without the need for registration. Of the three Portuguese works, the Piódão Square and Tourist Office was a finalist for the European Architecture Prize EU Mies Award. Caminho das Escadinhas and the General Silveira Building were selected for this year’s edition of the contemporary architecture awards from the European Union and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation.​

The visit to Caminho das Escadinhas, in Matosinhos, is scheduled for Saturday, May 4th, at 11am. Paulo Moreira, the architect who shares authorship of the project with the artist Verkron, will point out the details of the work on a walk between the hillside of the Monte Xisto neighborhood and the bank of the River Leça.

On the same day, at 3pm, 4pm and 5pm, the General Silveira building, in Porto, will open its doors to the first 15 people to attend each session. The architects Tiago Antero and Vitor Preto Fernandes, as well as the owner of the residential and commercial building, show the work.

On June 1st, at 3pm, Paula del Rio and João Branco guide the visit to the Square and the Piódão Tourist Office, followed by a conversation about the project that made the list of seven finalists. The event ends with an “invitation to celebrate the architecture and experience of that public space, with music by Nuno Grande, until sunset”, reads the note.

The three works are included in a set of 40 selected, among 362 nominated, located in more than 30 cities in Europe and which will be the subject of the “Out & About. Discovering Architecture. EUmies Awards 2024”, for two months (April 22nd to June 23rd). Providing more information about buildings and public spaces with the authors themselves, building owners and other people or entities involved is the aim of the initiative.

This year, the Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig, in Berlin, by Gustav Düsing and Büro Hacke, won the architecture prize. In the emerging architecture category, the Gabriel García Márquez Library, in Barcelona, ​​by SUMA Arquitectura, won.

The awards ceremony will take place on May 14th, at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, in Barcelona. In the first edition of the European Community award for Contemporary Architecture, in 1988, the bank in Vila do Conde, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, was the winner. From then on, works by Portuguese architects have been included in the list of those selected.

Text edited by Renata Monteiro