Residential Building Topa 1. - Rua 18e Junho - architect J. Belchior - 1957/58

ArchiTourAlgarve - Architecture Walking Tour Olhão: Monuments, Modernism & More

Residential Building Topa 1. - Rua 18e Junho - architect J. Belchior - 1957/58

Olhão, Faro 8700-379, Portugal

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This building, designed by civil engineer J. Belchior, in one of the main access roads to Olhão, the Rua 18th Junho is a typical building produced by non-architects.

It looks like a standard residential building with commercial spaces and has an orthogonal grid that is partly filled with panels of different materials, textures and transparency and is used as a second skin for the building.

On the ground floor the angled shopping windows and the "flashy" door fittings reminds us of prints from a comic strip.

Photographs: Urgélia Santos, Isabel Macieira e John Shepherd

This point of interest is part of the tour: ArchiTourAlgarve - Architecture Walking Tour Olhão: Monuments, Modernism & More


 

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