MENDONCA BUILDING

Praça CORONEL PIRES VIEGAS, # 6/7 and #11

Arq. Jorge de OLIVEIRA. Art Deco.

2 simular buildings. At 6-7 CONTREIRAS BUILDING (1955)

At 11 MENDONCA and PEREIRA BUILDING (1954)

You can notice the same conventional building volumes, with pared-down walls and well defined openings, as he used to do in former projects. But he added here more contemporan features such as Boxed Loggias, concrete canopies, slanted rooflines or even screen walls perforated with square shapes.

GOOD TO KNOW :

Jorge de Oliveira and Manuel Gomes da Costa were 2 major Modernist architects, with at the beginning of their carrer 2 singular styles. But MGdC soon started influencing Jorge Oliveira in his design.

The contemporan touch of those 2 buildings are a good illustration of MGdC influence (loggias, canopies, screen wals, …)