..

Centro de Artes Nadir Afonso, Boticas, by Louise Braverman
The new Art Centre dedicated to renowned Portuguese artist Nadir Afonso is slotted into a hillside. Preserving the rocky walls where the site was sliced off, New York architect Louise Braverman has created a dialogue between landscape and building, and rural and urban. Intended to drive economic, cultural, and community development in the region, the Centre is organised in two distinct but connected volumes - housing exhibition spaces, a children's library, café/restaurant, and auditorium.
Photography: Louise Braverman © FG+SG