Building Avenida da República, n.º 154 - 1950/60

This building at the Avenida da Republica is a beautiful white symmetrical concrete structure that reminds us a bit of a cinema or garage. The balcony is pushed forward like a second skin and has cheeks with round perforations.

The skin has wooden sunblocks, with a steel balustrade an open parapet filled with chicken wire. The round columns - slightly interrupted - by a canopy can cause an idea of a building on stilts, but that is only fake. It is as a block, a beautiful block.

Photographs: José Rosa Gonçalves e Will Köhlen a.o.