Urbanização do Montinho

Urbanização do Montinho - 1985

Apartment block consisting of fourteen floors with business spaces on the ground floor and set-backs on the last three floors. The building can be regarded as 'Light Brutalist'. Partly due to the sloping continuous concrete balcony balustrades that give this 'tall' building a heavy horizontal dominance.

This dominance is surprisingly broken on one side of the building by a ladder-shaped vertical concrete structure that gives it a certain playfulness. A striking building with actually 'four' facades with balconies, but you have to walk around it to perceive it.

The building was awarded with the Architecture Prize of the city of Faro in 1991.