Edificio Àgora & Praça de Ossonobo - Lago de Francisco sá Carneiro 47

Edificio Àgora & Praça de Ossonobo - Lago de Francisco sá Carneiro 47 - 1996

This seven-storey building complex with business premises and shops is located in the corner of Faro's market hall. You can walk under it and trough a beautiful courtyard to the other side of the building. In addition to the modest composition in the facade with horizontals and verticals that weave a second skin around the balconies.

In alternating composites of intersecting planes and beams and with occasionally just a vertical strip of windows straight through it. Besides beauty, this building also has humor. Especially because of the two life-size donkeys - the logo of the Pires & Brito company & a work of the artist Herminio Pinto da Silva - that look down from the roof at the audience below them.

On the other site of the building, we are even more surprised with a straight 'mikado-like' play of horizontal, vertical and transverse shadow elements in the facade and with suddenly a mezzanine on the ground floor. Walk through it and be surprised...