Novo Bank - 1950's - Architect João de Barros Vasconcelos Esteves

NOVO BANCO Rua D. Francisco Gomes 25

Contemporary civil architecture for a bank branch. Architectural composition characterized by features of the trend that has become internationally known since the 1950s as 'brutalist architecture', the main features of which are: the geometry of clear lines and large proportions, sometimes with an abstract profile and a superhuman scale; the repeated use of structural materials without coating (concrete 'brut', wood, stone) in large modules. International references for this trend are, for example, the works of the British Alison and Peter Smithson and Denys Lasdun or the Italian collective B.B.P.R.

Architect João de Barros Vasconcelos Esteves (1924 -2014)