Open House Porto

6 Quinta dos Cónegos Maia Equipamentos Séc. XVI-VXIII - / António Pinto Leite e Pais de Figueiredo Séc. XVIII / 1996 Free visits limited to the garden areas Regular visits limited to the garden areas Sat 17h + Sun 16h, Mário Aguiar (Tourism Technician C.M.Maia) / Sun 10h, Historian José Maia Marques / Access to the interior of the building only during guided tours Quinta dos Cónegos, in Maia, expresses the spirit of the 18th century and the influence of the Baroque. An appeal to construction that marvels, that transforms nature into an aesthetic appeal, that moulds taste to the period. The earliest recorded building dates back to the 17th century, known at the time as Quinta de Barreiros. Some authors place the current building between 1727 and 1737 (18th century), in the purest Baroque style and strongly influenced by the Nasoni school. It is a space of memory, of continuous renovation without losing the thread of time, from the baroque to the gardens, from water to stone, from the white of the walls to the green of nature. In the early 1990s, Quinta dos Cónegos was completely renovated in accordance with the architectural and decoration project by António Pinto Leite, helped by the dedicated collaboration of Pais de Figueiredo and Santos Farinha. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22) **WARNING Regular visits limited to the garden areas; access to the interior of the building only during guided tours.

27 S. João Baptista da Foz Fort Porto Equipamentos Séc. XVI-VXIII Francesco de Cremona Séc. XVI-XVIII Sat 10h, Maria José Távora / Sun 10h, geographers José Alberto Rio Fernandes e Jorge Ricardo Pinto (with tour in Foz) This fort hides in its interior what is left of the renaissance palace and the abbey church that Dom Miguel da Silva, Bishop of Viseu, built there in the first half of the 16th century to be his home and place of worship. In truth, these two architectural elements are an integral part of a wider set that Dom Miguel da Silva planned and had projected through an Italian architect Francesco de Cremona (that, certainly, he brought with him from Rome) and that forever marked the configuration of that place that they both founded. In the second half of the 16th century, Dom Miguel da Silva’s palace was integrated in the fort erected by the court that, in its interior, hides this History. The tiles of the church’s nave were taken out and the new one was built from the walls of the pre-existing church, in other words, the church exists today in its absence, open sky, converted in an inner patio of the fortress. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

40 Rainha D.ª Amélia Velodrome of MNSR Porto Infraestruturas Séc. XVI-VXIII Joaquim da Costa Sampaio / Fernando Távora 1795 / 2001 Sat 10h30, Paula Oliveira (Conservator at the Museum) / Sun 10h30, Architects Carlos Martins e Marta Rocha – Visit to the Museum Reserves Inaugurated in 1894, the Maria Amélia velodrome, of which there are still significant remains, was a response to the growing enthusiasm for cycling among Porto's elite at the end of the 19th century. Intended for racing these ‘crazy, fast machines’, with a track that allowed them to cover one kilometre in three laps, this was one of the city's first sports venues and also included two tennis courts. Opened in what was then a small forest and vegetable garden, given by King Carlos to the Associação Velo Club do Porto , the velodrome was developed at the back of the neoclassical Carrancas Palace, built in 1795 by the Morais e Castro family and which, acquired in 1861 by King Pedro V, became the official residence of the royal family when they travelled to Porto. Later, in 1940, it was converted into the Soares dos Reis National Museum. The name of the velodrome comes from the name of King Carlos I's wife: Queen Dona Amélia. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

42 Reitoria Universidade do Porto Porto Equipamentos Séc. XVI-VXIII Carlos Amarante / António Portugal e Manuel Maria Reis Séc. XVIII / 2019 Sat 10h Susana Barros / 11h Architect Rui Ramos / 16h Professor Hugo Barreira There are buildings that fuse themselves with their names… or there are institutions that get mixed up with their buildings. This happens with the University of Porto [UP] – for many residents of Porto (but not only) to speak of the “University” is to refer to its historical building on Leões Square. The history of this construction (1803) is very rich, full of events, interventions, programs and even catastrophes. And its interior reveals this process, keeping extraordinary surprises – like the library of the “Fundo Antigo” [Old Fund], the Noble Hall, the Patios or the Ferreira da Silva Laboratory recently rebuilt. The several invited specialists for the guided tours will tell us what’s at stake: not only about the story and architectural heritage but also about the exceptional collections and objects kept here. Today, the building houses the UP Rectory and the Natural History and Science Museum (central hub undergoing a process of installing articulated with the Biodiversity Gallery and the Botanical Garden of Porto). (Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

44 Livraria Lello Headquarters Porto Séc. XVI-VXIII António Pereira da Silva / Nuno Valentim Arquitectura (Nuno Valentim, Frederico Eça, Juliano Ribas, Mariana Menezes c/ Miguel Góis, Lucy Gipson-Stratton, Adriana Sacramento) 1908 / A decorrer Sat 12h Architect Frederico Eça / Sat 15h, Architect Juliano Ribas / Sat 16h, Architect Mariana Menezes / Sun 11h, Architect Lucy Gipson-Stratton (english) / Dom 12h, Architect Nuno Valentim / Dom 16h30, Architect Miguel Góis  *Closed shoes are recommended. Minimum age of 13 to take part in the visits. Built in 1908, in what was then the New Carmelitas neighbourhood, the building became linked to Porto's culture when it housed the ‘Centro Musical e Salão Bechstein de Raymundo de Macedo’ - a commercial and cultural space promoted by this pianist, one of the great promoters of the Porto Conservatory of Music. With its eclectic architecture, the building is part of a period of construction transition, where traditional systems of stone masonry, wooden beams and partition walls are joined by technological innovations, such as cast iron pillars and metal profiles - which you can see on this visit to the work in progress. The building will be returned to the city, recovering its architectural qualities (formal structure, spatial distribution logic), constructive values (traditional systems and decorative elements) and programme uniqueness - restoring the ground floor as an extension of the public space for cultural purposes of the Livraria Lello. (Nuno Valentim Architecture)

45 Centro Português de Fotografia (Former Cadeia da Relação) Porto Equipamentos Séc. XVI-VXIII Eugénio dos Santos / Humberto Vieira e Eduardo Souto de Moura Séc. XVIII / 2001 Designed by Eugénio dos Santos, the military engineer and architect responsible for the Pombaline reconstruction of Lisbon's city centre, the building of the Antiga Cadeia e Tribunal da Relação do Porto (Old Prison and Court of Appeal of Porto) is a unique example of 18th century Portuguese civil architecture and contains some of the city's most important memories. Fully preserved in structural terms, it is one of the few buildings of this type still standing in Europe and is possibly the most paradigmatic prison building in the country. Erected as part of the urban renewal promoted by governor-general João de Almada e Melo, it was probably Porto's first great civil building, reflecting in a remarkable way, even in European terms, its status as a bulwark of the exercise of state power, evident from the outset in its monumental solidity and the decorative programme of the courthouse, made up of a symbolic ensemble evocative of the principles of the old regime. Today, after its restoration between 1987 and 2000, as a result of the latest extraordinary intervention by architects Humberto Vieira and Eduardo Souto Moura, the monument retains the memory and evocative power of its original surroundings, while at the same time housing the contemporaneity of an exemplary restoration and the Portuguese Photography Centre, which the general public can now enjoy with quality. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

47 Museu de Arte Sacra e Arqueologia / Igreja S. Lourenço Porto Equipamentos Séc. XVI-VXIII Silvestre Jorge 1573 Sat 11h30, Architect Pedro Leão In the highest part of the city and magnificently placed at the Morro da Sé, this beautiful Jesuit church, Mannerist, built in the 16th Century, lives with a series of other things behind its grand façade: Sacred Art Museum and Maior Seminar of the Sé of Porto. The Museum has a modern intervention by architect Luís Cunha, and it contains beautiful pieces of religious art. The cells of the Convent, today rooms of seminarians, one after the other through the great corridor that interweaves and flows into mind-blowing balconies over the river. The visitors can move around these successive spaces. (Paula Santos e Ivo Poças Martins, OHP’17)

67 Artillery Regiment of Serra do Pilar Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos Séc. XVI-VXIII Frei Brás de Barros 1538 Sat 10h30, 11h30, 12h30 + Sun 10h30, Archeologist J.A.Gonçalves Guimarães* / Sun 11h30, Ph.D. Sérgio Veludo The Serra do Pilar Monastery is now the barracks of the Portuguese Army's Regiment. Its defensive vocation and occupation is evident due to its location and, today, its size and historical representation. In 1809, it received the Duke of Wellington's troops who, from the south bank, without the Ponte das Barcas, which had disappeared during the conflict, prepared the defeat and withdrawal of the French troops, a victory celebrated in the Monument to the Heroes of the Peninsular War. Later, in the midst of the Portuguese Civil War, during the Siege of Oporto of 1832-1833, the victory of the liberals was witnessed and the vanquished fled, setting fire to the Port wine warehouses. 17,374 barrels of wine and 533 of brandy were lost. King Maria II recognised its importance in 1835 and decreed that it be classified as a 1st Class War Square. *(Inês Moreira and João Paulo Rapagão, OHP'18)*

19 Titan from the Port of Leixões Matosinhos Infraestruturas Séc. XIX 1900-1950 1950-2000 Officines de Fives-Lille séc. XIX / 2021 WARNING: Access to Titan subject to favourable weather conditions, Titan not accessible to people with reduced mobility. The Titan is a large, century-old iron crane, unique in the world, which had the capacity to lift 50 tonnes of stone and which enabled the construction of what is currently one of the largest ports on the Iberian Peninsula and the largest artificial port in the country, a major driver of the local and national economy. In 2023, the Port of Leixões received 2,400 cargo ships and exported to 184 countries. The Titan was restored in 2021 and is an essential part of the history and identity of the Port of Leixões, the city of Matosinhos and Portugal's industrial heritage. - **WARNING** Access to Titan subject to favourable weather conditions, Titan not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

50 Palácio do Bolhão Porto Equipamentos Séc. XIX - / José Gigante, João Gomes e Manuel Fernando Santos 1844 / 2015 Sat+Sun 11h, Rosa Bessa / Sat 15h, Architects José Gigante and João Gomes / Sun 10h, Architect João Gomes Built under the orders of António de Guimarães, Count of Bolhão, and the stage of sumptuous parties and balls of the Porto elite of the second half of the 19th Century, the Palace is characterized by an eclectic architecture and profuse indoor decoration, with marble, plaster, painting and woodwork. Public Interest Monument since 2010, this building was rehabilitated and expanded, housing today the school and theatre company of the Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo [Academy of Contemporary Entertainment]. Visit the rooms of the Palace described by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco and the new auditorium. (Jorge Figueira, Carlos Machado e Moura, OHP’16)

53 Museu Militar do Porto Porto Equipamentos Séc. XIX 1950-2000 - / Fernando Lanhas 1895 / 1980 Sat 10h e 14h + Sun 10h, Alexandra Anjos (museologist) / Dom 16h, Architect José Pedro Tenreiro This bourgeois building of the end of the 19th century built to be the family residence of D. Maria Coimbra, holds this museum today. It has been many different things, during the Spanish Civil War it was the home of Spanish nuns, later it was bought by the Portuguese state that transformed it in the PIDE headquarters (Portuguese political police) in Porto, a place for interrogations, imprisonment and torture, between the 1940s and the Carnation Revolution, in 1974. Right next to Porto’s first public cemetery, Prado do Repouso, after PIDE was occupied in 1977, the building became the military museum that opened in March 1980. The visit includes the access to the historical building and the exhibition pavilion, in the garden. (Inês Moreira e João Paulo Rapagão, OHP’18)

54 Colégio dos Salesianos Porto Equipamentos Séc. XIX 1900-1950 - / José Joaquim Mendes / - 1804 / 1903 / 2011 Sun, 1 per hour, visits by the school's students The building that stands on the granite massif of the Douro riverside slope is not only a landmark in the landscape, but also a testimony to the passage of time and the transformation of spaces. From its origins as a Diocesan Seminary, through the period of abandonment and destruction during the Siege of Porto, to its reconstruction to house a new educational mission, the building that houses the Colégio dos Salesianos continues to evolve, in a constant dynamic of heritage re-signification and urban integration, showing a unique relationship with the topography and morphology of the city. Opening this space to the public as part of Open House Porto will allow us to reflect on the dynamics of preserving and reinterpreting built heritage. The experience provided by the visit will enable a stratigraphic reading of the spaces, material elements and narratives that the building contains, promoting a critical look at the permanence and mutation of architecture in the contemporary urban context. (Colégio dos Salesianos)

55 Prado do Repouso Cemetery Porto Equipamentos Séc. XIX 1839 Sat 19h, Architect Pedro Bandeira What life is there in the city of the dead? It lives above all in the memory of the departed and those who take care to keep it present. Many of the stories of the city of the living can be found in the buildings that serve as their home, often of remarkable architectural and artistic quality: the wealth and opulence of some of its inhabitants perpetuated in family tombs, both neo-Gothic and modern, as well as the interrupted construction of a monumental church that would link to Rua de S. Vítor. We invite you to visit Porto's first public cemetery at night, founded in 1839, and discover a place where memories of the city are kept. (Paula Santos and Ivo Poças Martins, OHP'17)

62 Graham's Cellars 1890 Vila Nova de Gaia Séc. XIX - / Luís Loureiro 1890 / 2013 Sun 10h15, Architect Luís Loureiro Built in 1890 in a dominant location in Vila Nova de Gaia, a short distance from the Atlantic Ocean, Graham's cellars have magnificent views of the historic centre of Porto, on the other bank of the River Douro. The building has three levels: on the main level is the large ageing warehouse, on the lower level we have the main entrance (Rua Rei Ramiro) and the wine cellar area buried at the back, the upper level connects to the internal street where there is also a large storage area for maturing wine. The rehabilitation project for the ageing warehouse, carried out by architect Luís Loureiro+P06Design in 2013, aimed to give the existing building new uses, revitalise the existing ones and adapt it to new requirements, in a coherent whole and always with respect for the main activity carried out there - the ageing of Port wine. *(Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)*

63 Corpus Christi Space Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos Séc. XIX 2000-Presente Padre Pantaleão da Rocha de Magalhães 1675 Sat 20h+22h, Architects Carla Garrido and Maria José Casanova The original Convent of Corpus Christi, built in 1345, was situated a little closer to the River Douro. Due to the floods, a new building was erected in the 17th century at a slightly higher elevation. It includes the convent chapel with an octagonal floor plan designed by Pantaleão Vieira and the high choir commissioned by Prioress Catarina in 1680 from master carpenter Domingos Lopes. The space is decorated with high-quality carvings with plant designs and the ceiling, divided into 49 coffered ceilings, depicts saints from both the Dominican Order and other orders, with the fifteen central panels alluding to the life and death of Jesus. The recent restoration work has helped to give visibility to one of the city's best-kept treasures. *(Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)*

19 Titan from the Port of Leixões Matosinhos Infraestruturas Séc. XIX 1900-1950 1950-2000 Officines de Fives-Lille séc. XIX / 2021 WARNING: Access to Titan subject to favourable weather conditions, Titan not accessible to people with reduced mobility. The Titan is a large, century-old iron crane, unique in the world, which had the capacity to lift 50 tonnes of stone and which enabled the construction of what is currently one of the largest ports on the Iberian Peninsula and the largest artificial port in the country, a major driver of the local and national economy. In 2023, the Port of Leixões received 2,400 cargo ships and exported to 184 countries. The Titan was restored in 2021 and is an essential part of the history and identity of the Port of Leixões, the city of Matosinhos and Portugal's industrial heritage. - **WARNING** Access to Titan subject to favourable weather conditions, Titan not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

20 Roberto Ivens House Matosinhos Equipamentos 1900-1950 1950-2000 Álvaro Siza 1961 / 2009 / 2022 Sat 11h, Architect Pedro Pimentel / Sat 14h30, Architect José Salgado / Sun 11h, 15h, Architect Mariana Bernardes In the central mesh of Matosinhos we can still find many examples of Porto’s bourgeois houses, or variations, built between the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The Roberto Ivens house is one of those houses – with the particularity of having been remodelled by Siza Vieira himself to be the house of his parents, in 1961. In 2009, it is him once again that designs the building’s reconversion into the first headquarters of Casa da Arquitectura. It’s another extraordinary exercise of “transformation in continuity” – an idea that architect Fernando Távora frequently enunciated – where we recognize a new inner life overlapping the memory of a family house. The surprising natural way in which this process is designed is latent – in everything. *(Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)*

23 Matosinhos Memory Museum - Trevões Palace Matosinhos Equipamentos 1900-1950 António Alves da Silva / Eng. Manuel Lopes de Amorim / Ana Crista 1913 / 1944 / 2017 Sat 10h, Museologist Luís Soares / Sun 16h, Archaeologist José Varela Based in the emblematic building of the old Town Hall, MuMMa is a space dedicated to preserving and celebrating the collective identity of Matosinhos. Inaugurated in 2023, the museum brings together testimonies, objects and narratives that span the history of the municipality, from the fishing tradition to industrialisation and contemporary urban culture. Its museography invites interaction and dialogue between generations, crossing past and present. As part of Open House Porto 2025, MuMMa is opening its doors to visitors to showcase not only its exhibition content, but also the rehabilitated building itself, where historic architecture and contemporary intervention meet. An invitation to discover the living memory of a city in constant transformation.

24 Casa da Arquitectura Matosinhos Equipamentos 1900-1950 Eng. António da Silva / Guilherme Machado Vaz 1901 / 2017 Sat 15h, Architect Marco Ginoulhiac (Exhibition - Galeria da Casa) / Sat + Sun 16h, Architect José Fonseca (Archive CA) / Sat 17h, Architect Ana Neiva and Jorge Figueira (Exhibition - Nave Expsoitiva) / Sun 15h00, Architect Carla Barros / Sun 17h, Architect Guilherme Machado Vaz >> Visits to the Archive have a maximum capacity of 15 people >> IMPORTANT: Visits are not pre-booked but passes are distributed 30 minutes before each visit. Casa da Arquitectura - Centro Português de Arquitectura is one of the most important institutions in Portugal dedicated to the theme of Architecture, promoting exhibitions, preserving collections, research and disseminating the social and cultural relevance of architecture to different audiences. Based in Matosinhos, just a few metres from the beach, since 2017 the Portuguese Architecture Centre has occupied the former Real Vinícola block - a late 19th century heritage site, restored to a design by architect Guilherme Machado Vaz - which covers an area of around 5,000 m² and includes the Exhibition Nave, the House Gallery, the Luis Ferreira Alves and Álvaro Siza spaces, the Archive, the House Shop and support and service areas. It is currently an unavoidable reference in the architectural, cultural and tourist panorama, and is an award-winning and recognised example of the rehabilitation of industrial heritage.

25 Live Museum Conservas Pinhais Matosinhos Equipamentos 1900-1950 Augusto Coelho Pereira de Araújo / ACS Architects 1923 / 2021 Sat + Sun 09h30, 10h30, 11h30, 14h00, 15h00, 16h00, Museum guides Conservas Pinhais & C.ª Lda., founded in 1920, occupies a building dating from 1923 and enlarged in 1945 as part of Licínio Guimarães' urbanisation plan for Areal do Prado. This space preserves the traditional and artisanal production of tinned fish - with special emphasis on sardines - while at the same time carefully conserving the building and the company's production legacy, remaining as faithful as possible to the original. The manual preparation of ingredients, such as bay leaves, and the artisanal production of tomato pulp ensure the authenticity, quality and longevity of Pinhais products. The towers on the corners of the building reveal influences from English industrial architecture, while the main atrium, dominated by a spiral staircase, conveys a material nobility that leads to the office, where the atmosphere remains anchored in the past. Traditions are also maintained, such as the ringing of the bell, which marks the rhythm of the working day, under the protective gaze of Our Lady of Fatima. Since 2021, with the creation of the Museu Vivo Conservas Pinhais Factory Tour, it has been possible to take guided tours of the historic building, learning about the history of the brand and all the stages of artisanal canning production, culminating in a product tasting. This immersive tour invites you to discover the know-how, values and living memory of one of Portugal's most emblematic canneries.

30 Ouro's Ejector Porto Infraestruturas 1900-1950 Hughes & Lancaster 1904 Sat + Sun 10h, Engineer Pedro Lemos In Largo do Ouro there is an isolated volume that looks like a small kiosk or a sentry box. The volume, topped by a kind of crown, is the door to an underground room, designed to house a Shone expeller. The station, which is still in operation, is part of the sewerage project that Porto City Council began to draw up in 1896, based on the waste injection system patented at the end of 1870 by London contractors Hughes & Lancaster. With tiled walls and access from a spiral cast-iron staircase, the room is announced by the sentry box and an ‘ornamental column’ for ventilation. The simultaneous presence of these two architectural elements elsewhere in the city always hides a room like this one. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

41 Ferreira da Silva Laboratory of MHNC-UP Porto Equipamentos 1900-1950 Carlos Amarante / António Portugal e Manuel Maria Reis 1927 / 2018 Sat 10h Architect Nelson Miranda / 16h Marisa Monteiro Ferreira da Silva Laboratory was opened to the public as a museum and cultural space in 2021. A landmark laboratory and educational facility in the history of chemistry in Portugal, a visit to the laboratory allows you to travel back to the 1930s and 1940s, not only because of the instruments and other equipment on display and used here at the time, but also because of the Art Deco aesthetic that characterises the space. The Ferreira da Silva Laboratory is also part of a project that, in partnership with the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra and the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon, allows you to travel 300 years in a space of 300 kilometres. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

43 Livraria Lello Porto 1900-1950 Francisco Xavier Esteves 1906 Sat, every 30 minutes, Livraria Lello booksellers / Sat 9pm, Architect António Choupina (visit to the Bookshop Expansion project, designed by Álvaro Siza) The Livraria Lello building, founded in 1906, is today one of Porto's most privileged shopping centres and one of the most emblematic neo-Gothic style buildings in Portugal. The space was designed by architect Francisco Xavier Esteves (his signature can be seen at the base of the iconic staircase in the centre of the space, one of the city's pioneering concrete interventions), and has elements by others, such as the figures of Art and Science on the Bookshop's façade by Joseph Bielmann and the unmistakable 95-panel stained glass window by Dutchman Samuel Van Krieken, which floods the entire interior with light. Living up to the designation of Gothic as the ‘architecture of light’, Lello is also like a Gothic cathedral of knowledge, illuminating its users and visitors. (Graça Correia e Joel Cleto, OHP’22)

46 Tipografia Peninsular Porto 1900-1950 1905 Sat + Sun, each 30 min, Carlos Magno, Diogo Barbedo, Francisco Araújo This printing office is born in 1905 at São Crispim Street, and it still exists today with its full name: Peninsular – Papelaria e Artes Gráficas. Founded at the end of the 19th century, in the following century it moves to Mouzinho da Silveira street, to a building with a housing and bourgeois structure, adapted at the time. “Não perca tempo a pensar… compre na Peninsular” [Don’t waist time thinking… just buy at Peninsular], shows with its first slogan the typical energy of family run printing industries. It is notoriously one of the few 100 year old institutions from Porto with these characteristics to survive as a family business till today, facing the market changes and the technologic evolution of the world of graphic arts. (Inês Moreira e João Paulo Rapagão, OHP’18)

48 Culturgest / Caixa Geral de Depósitos Porto Equipamentos 1900-1950 Porfírio Pardal Monteiro 1931 Sat 14h+16h, Architect Domingos Tavares Greatest work of the “Lisbon architect” outside the capital, this impressive building in the Aliados Avenue stands out from its neighbours by its horizontality and classic gravity of its volume. The classic and institutional appearance of the exterior, contrasts with the art deco environment of the octagonal central hall and its double height. Apart from the spaces of Culturgest that since 2002 promotes cultural activities, this visit includes the safes. (Jorge Figueira, Carlos Machado e Moura, OHP’16)

49 Câmara Municipal do Porto Porto Equipamentos 1900-1950 1950-2000 António Correia da Silva / Carlos Ramos 1917 / 1957 Sat 10h, Councilman Pedro Baganha It’s the home of the local administration of the municipality, which means, the house that represents every inhabitant of the city, a symbolic building that occupies a featured place in the north top of the Aliados Avenue. This implantation is the result of a long process of urban expansion made by English architect Barry Parker. The plan for the new civic centre, approved in 1916, predicted the demolition of the area that defines today the wide avenue, including the building which before held the city hall and that defined the D. Pedro Square, today’s Liberdade Square. This square opens up today to the grand scale axis that culminates, at the end, with the new building projected by António Carreia da Silva. The compact volume with a tower as axis (started in the 1920s and concluded, years later, by Carlos Ramos), only in 1957 houses the city hall services, meanwhile transferred to the Episcopal building (see nº43). Even though the elevation only reveals the existence of three floors (a ground floor, a noble floor and an attic) the volume develops in six floors and a basement, there are unexpected spaces when you go into the surprising interior of the building. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

52 Alexandre Herculano School Porto Equipamentos 1900-1950 José Marques da Silva / Alexandre Alves Costa, SergioFernandez e Miguel Ribeiro 1934 / 2023 Sun 11h, Architects Alexandre Alves Costa, Sergio Fernandez e Miguel Ribeiro The construction of new high schools in the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries was marked by a desire to boost scientific teaching and respond to the demands of modern education. The then Liceu Central Alexandre Herculano marked an intention to consolidate the expansion of the city in the direction of the then new 19th century Praça da Boavista. Its recent refurbishment honours its past. Construction of the building began in 1916 and work continued until the 30s. Designed by the architect José Marques da Silva, a key figure in modern architecture in Porto, the building offered a series of spaces that, at the time, were unusual in this programme: the large corridors and windows, auditorium, gymnasium and swimming pool made this school an essential reference point. Among many other improvements, the swimming pool was replaced by changing rooms, the canteen was relocated (with its own access) and the gymnasium and auditorium were refurbished. The main façade, which housed the directorates, amphitheatres, laboratories, the Natural History Museum and the administrative services, was given a perpendicular position to the four wings of classrooms. The first floor of the centre section of the main façade is now occupied by the library. It was classified as a Monument of Public Interest in 2011. (Atelier 15)

54 Colégio dos Salesianos Porto Equipamentos Séc. XIX 1900-1950 - / José Joaquim Mendes / - 1804 / 1903 / 2011 Sun, 1 per hour, visits by the school's students The building that stands on the granite massif of the Douro riverside slope is not only a landmark in the landscape, but also a testimony to the passage of time and the transformation of spaces. From its origins as a Diocesan Seminary, through the period of abandonment and destruction during the Siege of Porto, to its reconstruction to house a new educational mission, the building that houses the Colégio dos Salesianos continues to evolve, in a constant dynamic of heritage re-signification and urban integration, showing a unique relationship with the topography and morphology of the city. Opening this space to the public as part of Open House Porto will allow us to reflect on the dynamics of preserving and reinterpreting built heritage. The experience provided by the visit will enable a stratigraphic reading of the spaces, material elements and narratives that the building contains, promoting a critical look at the permanence and mutation of architecture in the contemporary urban context. (Colégio dos Salesianos)

56 Nova Sintra Water Reservoir Porto Infraestruturas 1900-1950 SMAS do Porto 1929 Sat + Sun 15h, Débora Silva (Águas e Energia do Porto) Bought in 1932 by the Municipality of Porto, the Nova Sintra farm gets the Reservoir in 1928 and the Central in 1929, matching up the woods and the romantic garden of the “Englishmen’s house” with the biggest infrastructure of water storage of the city, destined to duplicate the capacity of the Jovim/Santo Isidro conduct. The municipalisation of the water supply to each house in 1875 created a secret layer under the streets that we cross everyday, with conducts, valves, and others, this way no longer needing fountains and springs. Today with the project Porto Gravítico implemented by the Águas do Porto, E. M., has no use for most of the reservoirs, supplying and going along the city according to its topography. Today the storage capacity of the six reservoirs of the city is of 125.450 cubic meters, which corresponds to a reserve for more than two days. (Inês Moreira e João Paulo Rapagão, OHP’18)

58 M-odu (Former Porto's Slaughterhouse) Porto Equipamentos 1900-1950 Eng. Monteiro de Andrade / Kengo Kuma e OODA 1910 / A decorrer Use of compulsory safety equipment (provided by the organisation) and compulsory use of closed shoes. Sun 14h, Architect Inês Moreira / Sun 15h+16h, Architect Miguel Rebelo, KKAA / Sun 16h30+17h30, Architect João Styliano, OODA Use of compulsory safety equipment (provided by the organisation) and compulsory use of closed shoes. In the 19th century, municipal slaughterhouses functioned as a fundamental instrument for the health of the urban environment and its inhabitants, which is why they were located on the outskirts of cities, usually in large buildings. The Old Industrial Slaughterhouse of Porto ceased to function in the 1990s and was abandoned for decades, until its reconversion and requalification began in 2022. This project is one of the main actions to revitalise the eastern part of the city, in conjunction with other structuring projects such as the Campanhã Intermodal Terminal, the Dragão Stadium and Praça da Corujeira, in a priority development area for the current municipal executive. In 2015, Porto City Council refused to sell this municipal asset, as the previous executive had advocated, and began the process of defining an intervention project for the Slaughterhouse, signalling the potential of this equipment to serve the city. The work currently underway includes the complete conversion of the complex and the construction of new buildings, as well as 5,500 m2 of public and wooded outdoor spaces. The 20,500,000 m2 of construction will necessarily be dedicated to a multifunctional and multipurpose programme, with a diverse cultural, creative, economic and social offer. The municipality will have 8,000 square metres to create a new extension to the Porto Municipal Gallery, a collection and deposit of works of art, a space dedicated to artistic and community practices, municipal workshops and an educational space. The remaining buildings will be used for offices, commercial and catering spaces. A pedestrian and cycle bridge will also be created over the VCI, linking the Slaughterhouse to the Dragão metro station. (Teresa Novais and Margarida Quintã, OHP'24)

69 Vila Nova de Gaia Cityhall Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos 1900-1950 Francisco Oliveira Ferreira / - 1916 / 2023 Sun 11h00, Architect José Pedro Tenreiro This romantic building with its pronounced eclecticism and stonework decoration is a representative example of Oliveira Ferreira's work, in which the Heliântia Clinic is an exception, as it incorporates modern elements. A corner building, it consists of two symmetrical volumes joined by a third central body with a staircase and a large balcony. Visitors are invited to visit the interior of the Town Hall and go up to the Great Hall and the balcony. *(Carlos Machado e Moura and Jorge Figueira, OHP'16)*

3 LIPOR II Maia Infraestruturas 1950-2000 Grupo 3 Arquitectos Associados e TECNOPOR 1992 / 1999 Sat 10am, 11.30am, 2.30pm and 4pm, Miguel Silva (LIPOR Technician);Appropriate footwear (closed) compulsory. It is compulsory to wear PPE, to be provided by the organisation. reservas marcação pré-marcação Located in Moreira da Maia, LIPOR II is an essential infrastructure for the sustainable management of urban waste in the Porto Metropolitan Area. Opened in 2000, it serves eight municipalities - Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Valongo and Vila do Conde. The complex comprises two main units: the Energy Recovery Plant and the landfill, which has a Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) with tertiary treatment (ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis). The plant treats around 1,100 tonnes of non-recyclable waste a day and transforms it into electricity. With two treatment lines, it has an annual capacity of 400,000 tonnes and provides the electricity grid with around 165,000MWh per year, enough energy to supply a population equivalent to 150,000 inhabitants. The Landfill receives the by-products of incineration, such as slag and treated ash, while the Wastewater Treatment Plant ensures the proper treatment of wastewater. It also maintains an ongoing environmental, psychosocial and public health monitoring programme, reinforcing its strategic role in building a more sustainable future for the municipalities it serves. - **IMPORTANT** Accessible exclusively by car

13 Super Bock House of Beer Matosinhos 1950-2000 Arménio Losa, Joaquim Sampaio e Luís Manuel Cerveira / OMDesign 1967 / 2015 Sat + Sun, all tours guided by Ana Rita Moreira (Super Bock Guide) The headquarters of the biggest national company of production and commerce of beer and water can be found strategically associated to road infrastructures – Via Norte – and railroads – Linha de Leixões –, contiguous to the company Lionesa and in the proximities of Leça do Balio Monastery. Giving continuity to the União Fabril Portuense Company, the unit has a dynamic implantation generated by administrative, industrial, repair shop related and social components. The naves for bottling and storage are updated, since the start in 1964, till the present day. The premises of functionality, quality, and growth capacity are clear in the way it is organized. We can add the premise of visibility, evident in the copper tanks integrated in the extensive façade, a great window to be looked at from the fast automobile. This is the media coverage and renovation of the values of the new architecture of the 1950s where industry was a glorifying and stimulating theme for the architect. *(Inês Moreira and João Paulo Rapagão, OHP'18)*

15 Boa Nova Teahouse Matosinhos 1950-2000 Álvaro Siza 1962 / 1991 / 2014 Sun 11h, Architect Mafalda Mendonça / Sun 17h30, Chef Rui Paula* >> *Due to unforeseen circumstances, the visit with Chef Rui Paula will not be able to take place. The fruit of an architecture competition in which Fernando Távora abdicated authorship in favour of young Siza Vieira. The tale people tell, is that before going on a trip to America as a Gulbenkian grant recipient, Távora said to the young group of collaborators that he left preparing the proposal, that the house should be set in this specific place, in other words, over the existing rocky grounds and not with a view over them. His team developed the winning project with basis on the master’s premise to which, later, Siza gave the final and definite form. The teahouse that we can visit today, made the Boa Nova site eternal (which is also the “boa nova” [good news] marking Siza’s arrival to the craft) through the many publications dedicated to its architecture. The white abstract walls that guide our gaze and the steps when ascending to the house are of a later phase and give comfort to the open space that precedes the intimate house, and that from its domestic interior opens itself up to the infinite. *(Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)* **WARNING** Use of shoe covers is mandatory in all visits

16 Former Matosinhos Refinery Matosinhos Infraestruturas 1950-2000 Foster Wheeler Corporation e Companhia Portuguesa de Petróleos 1966 Sat 10h, 11h30, 16h + Sun 10h, 11h30, 14h30, 16h, Ivo Félix (Galp) / Sat 14h30, Architect Inês Moreira >> IMPORTANT: Visitor identification required (name and ID), including children, The guided tours will take place by bus, it is recommended that you arrive at least 30 minutes before the tour time, subject to registration on site, subject to availability, on a first-come, first-served basis. On 5 and 6 July, the former Galp refinery in Matosinhos will open its doors to the community, as part of the 10th edition of Open House Porto. This infrastructure, whose building has Estado Novo architectural features, was built in the late 1960s and officially opened in 1970. In an industrial city of around 240 hectares, several specialised engineering factories ensured oil refining and the supply of essential raw materials to the country for more than half a century. These guided tours offer the opportunity to get to know the refinery from the inside, now decommissioned and with demolition work underway. Galp will promote the regeneration of this vast area of Matosinhos in close liaison with the Matosinhos City Council, the CCDR-N and other local and national organisations with a view to building a new ecosystem dedicated to innovation, technology and the energies of the future. This is a legacy that the company aims to leave to the region and the country, in what it hopes will be the largest and most significant urban regeneration project in Portugal in the coming decades.

17 Tidal Swimming Pool Matosinhos Equipamentos 1950-2000 Álvaro Siza 1966 / 2021 Sat 17h, Architect Teresa Cunha Ferreira / Sat 18h, Architect José Fernando Gonçalves / Sun 11h, Architect Luís Urbano Initially marked by the existence of a lobster vivarium, this place maintains a dialogue between natural elements and artificial information. The several straight parallel walls in reinforced concrete, that are “cut” at the bar area by a plan that points to the crane or “titan”, contrast with the nature of rocks and the sand. So then a path appears, that is slow and that alternates between being either parallel to being perpendicular to the sea, descending, partially buried to free up the view of the horizon to whoever is circulating in the road. The high walls postpone the discovery of the sea, giving access to cloakrooms, showers and toilets, bar and also the water treatment station that belongs to the sea. The walls in reinforced concrete support the wooden and copper roof where the partitions are suspended. If we go down and peek, we can grasp the continuous pavement, free as the sea. *(Inês Moreira and João Paulo Rapagão, OHP’18)* **WARNING** Use of swimming pools not included (subject to the applicable rate)

19 Titan from the Port of Leixões Matosinhos Infraestruturas Séc. XIX 1900-1950 1950-2000 Officines de Fives-Lille séc. XIX / 2021 WARNING: Access to Titan subject to favourable weather conditions, Titan not accessible to people with reduced mobility. The Titan is a large, century-old iron crane, unique in the world, which had the capacity to lift 50 tonnes of stone and which enabled the construction of what is currently one of the largest ports on the Iberian Peninsula and the largest artificial port in the country, a major driver of the local and national economy. In 2023, the Port of Leixões received 2,400 cargo ships and exported to 184 countries. The Titan was restored in 2021 and is an essential part of the history and identity of the Port of Leixões, the city of Matosinhos and Portugal's industrial heritage. - **WARNING** Access to Titan subject to favourable weather conditions, Titan not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

20 Roberto Ivens House Matosinhos Equipamentos 1900-1950 1950-2000 Álvaro Siza 1961 / 2009 / 2022 Sat 11h, Architect Pedro Pimentel / Sat 14h30, Architect José Salgado / Sun 11h, 15h, Architect Mariana Bernardes In the central mesh of Matosinhos we can still find many examples of Porto’s bourgeois houses, or variations, built between the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The Roberto Ivens house is one of those houses – with the particularity of having been remodelled by Siza Vieira himself to be the house of his parents, in 1961. In 2009, it is him once again that designs the building’s reconversion into the first headquarters of Casa da Arquitectura. It’s another extraordinary exercise of “transformation in continuity” – an idea that architect Fernando Távora frequently enunciated – where we recognize a new inner life overlapping the memory of a family house. The surprising natural way in which this process is designed is latent – in everything. *(Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)*

22 Four Houses - D'Abreu Neto House Matosinhos Equipamentos 1950-2000 Álvaro Siza 1957 / 2024 Sat 15h, 16h, Architect Inês Ruas / Sat 20h + Sun 15h00, Architect Sara Nunes Siza Vieira’s first work (still far from the architectural expression of what would be considered his masterworks), the group of four houses is an essay on a revision of modernity that mixes the Inquiry on Popular Architecture (filtered by Távora), Ronchamp by Le Corbusier and his own, as always, Alvar Aalto. Integrated in this group, the house of his first client predicted a path that forced the duplication of stairs that, even though decreased free space, they increased the living possibilities of the house. In this, the project is complex and contradictory, anticipating 1966 Venturi’s homonym book. The kitchen at Neto’s House seems to have been shaped in clay colour pastilles with Siza’s own hands, still impressed with his discovery of the organic expression of Gaudi’s architecture. The sculptural presence of the chimney reminds us of Christmas, Easter and normal days of that house. *(Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)* **WARNING** Use of shoe covers is mandatory in all visits

32 Casa Marta Ortigão Sampaio - Museu da Cidade Porto Equipamentos 1950-2000 José Carlos Loureiro 1957 Sat 15h30, Susana Lourenço Marques (curator of the temporary exhibition) A modernist building from 1958, designed by José Carlos Loureiro, the Marta Ortigão Sampaio House opened to the public in 1996, following a donation to the municipality in 1978. Marta Ortigão Sampaio (1897-1978), the daughter of Estela de Souza and Vasco Ortigão Sampaio, a famous collector from Porto, was the maternal niece of the painters Aurélia de Souza and Sofia de Souza and was born into a privileged context of contact with artistic practice. The House-Museum evokes the atmosphere that surrounded the life of this Porto bourgeois family, presenting collections of paintings, jewellery, a library specialising in art, pieces of furniture of French, English and Indo-Portuguese influence and other decorative arts pieces. A highlight is the collection of jewellery for personal use, with nearly three hundred pieces from the late 17th to the 20th century. In the garden you can see carved stones that belonged to the vanished monastery of S. Bento de Avé-Maria and a small lake surrounded by various botanical species, especially magnolias and an Atlas cedar. (Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)

34 Casa 61 - Bairro da Bouça Porto Habitação 1950-2000 Álvaro Siza / Nuno Reis Pereira 1977 / 2006 / 2023 Sat + Sun, every 30 minutes, Architects Domiziana Roberi, João Maria Lopes e Nuno Reis Pereira House 61 belongs to the first phase of the Bouça housing estate, designed in the 1970s by Álvaro Siza as part of the SAAL process. Having undergone many alterations, the house has reached the present day with few traces of its first life. Since it wasn't possible to ‘repeat’ it, it had to be replaced or reproposed. Most of the (re)proposals had already been made in 2006, when the complex was finalised in its definitive relationship with the city. Three decades after the end of SAAL, the new typologies brought revisions: the materials were updated, the dimensions retouched and the use of spaces made more flexible. The decisions in the refurbishment of this house in 2023 are in the same spirit, borrowing some tiles or a sliding door. Certain replacements were made. However, we can't resist pointing out that we can still read the original typology, an ambitious exercise in modernity, a fresh delight from those years. (Nuno Reis Pereira)

37 Edifício Lino Porto Habitação 1950-2000 Arménio Losa e Cassiano Barbosa / Carlos Maia e Marta Labastida 1953 / A decorrer Sat + Sun 11h30, 15h30, Architects Marta Labastida e Carlos Maia The building, popularly known as Lino Lamps Building, was projected between 1951 and 1953 by architects Arménio Losa and Cassiano Barbosa and was the commission of Sr. Custódio Lino – a reputed lamp maker whose factory was on the same street. Lino lamps are also closely connected to the Escola do Porto [Porto’s School] as they produced pieces for many of their architects. Two of the floors are a shop and showroom and the remaining four are housing – in the last floor there are two studios with a terrace, that were used as lodging for the German technicians that would travel to Porto for long periods of time to repair the factory’s equipment. The showroom was set on the semi-basement of the building, under a community terrace, opening up to the garden on the public space. Despite the small dimensions and the conditions of the fractions, Lino building clearly incorporates and expresses the modern, functional and constructive formal lexicon of architects Losa and Barbosa. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

39 Casa na Rua da Bandeirinha Porto Habitação 1950-2000 António Portugal e Manuel Maria Reis 1999 Sat 10h, 12h 16h e 17h + Sun 10h, 12h e 17h, Achitects. Anne Wermeille Mendonça, Isabel Sereno e Manuel Maria Reis There are streets that deserve to be seen from behind. Rua da Bandeirinha is one of them. Four architects, partners and friends, António Portugal and Anne Wermeille and José Maria Reis and Isabel Sereno, found a property too big for just one house, or even two. They therefore decided to add a shared office to the houses. The width of the building was divided into two halves, exactly symmetrical. Each house develops over several floors, always around a central body. Everything was designed with exemplary detail. Each floor has a function and the rooms have no doors. The two families share the marvellous garden, the continuation of the romantic garden of Virtudes: an unexpected platform with an inebriating view of Porto, the city and the river. (Paula Santos and Ivo Poças Martins, OHP'17)

49 Câmara Municipal do Porto Porto Equipamentos 1900-1950 1950-2000 António Correia da Silva / Carlos Ramos 1917 / 1957 Sat 10h, Councilman Pedro Baganha It’s the home of the local administration of the municipality, which means, the house that represents every inhabitant of the city, a symbolic building that occupies a featured place in the north top of the Aliados Avenue. This implantation is the result of a long process of urban expansion made by English architect Barry Parker. The plan for the new civic centre, approved in 1916, predicted the demolition of the area that defines today the wide avenue, including the building which before held the city hall and that defined the D. Pedro Square, today’s Liberdade Square. This square opens up today to the grand scale axis that culminates, at the end, with the new building projected by António Carreia da Silva. The compact volume with a tower as axis (started in the 1920s and concluded, years later, by Carlos Ramos), only in 1957 houses the city hall services, meanwhile transferred to the Episcopal building (see nº43). Even though the elevation only reveals the existence of three floors (a ground floor, a noble floor and an attic) the volume develops in six floors and a basement, there are unexpected spaces when you go into the surprising interior of the building. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

53 Museu Militar do Porto Porto Equipamentos Séc. XIX 1950-2000 - / Fernando Lanhas 1895 / 1980 Sat 10h e 14h + Sun 10h, Alexandra Anjos (museologist) / Dom 16h, Architect José Pedro Tenreiro This bourgeois building of the end of the 19th century built to be the family residence of D. Maria Coimbra, holds this museum today. It has been many different things, during the Spanish Civil War it was the home of Spanish nuns, later it was bought by the Portuguese state that transformed it in the PIDE headquarters (Portuguese political police) in Porto, a place for interrogations, imprisonment and torture, between the 1940s and the Carnation Revolution, in 1974. Right next to Porto’s first public cemetery, Prado do Repouso, after PIDE was occupied in 1977, the building became the military museum that opened in March 1980. The visit includes the access to the historical building and the exhibition pavilion, in the garden. (Inês Moreira e João Paulo Rapagão, OHP’18)

59 Bloco de Costa Cabral Porto Habitação 1950-2000 Viana de Lima / Adoff Arquitetos 1955 / 2018 Sat, each 45 minutes, Arq. António Fundo Ferreira This multi-family housing building shows the importance that the modern revisionist movement continues to give to new ways of inhabiting: functional kitchen, with a wall integrated dish rack, in direct connection with the meal area displayed in continuity with the sitting area, bedrooms with abundant light from horizontal windows, terraces and balconies that prolong the reading of the inside space to the outside. From the point of view of urbanism, even though implanted parallel to the street, through an indentation the block becomes autonomous to it, and is “completed” by the nearby gables with the same brick coating of the building. The ground floor is distinct from the upper floors (forcing a complex deviation in the structure and infra-structures of the building) and it shows the pillars-columns, in the style of modern pilotis. It is therefore a moderate modern building, without the radicalism known of its European heroic counterpart. In that resides today its exemplary character. Viana de Lima, author of the building and participant of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) was, himself, one of the inhabitants of this modern machine for living. (Joana Couceiro e Nuno Valentim, OHP’19)

64 Cockburn's Cellars Vila Nova de Gaia 1950-2000 - / Luís Loureiro Santos e Nuno Gusmão 1920 / 2017 Sat 12h15, Architect Marco Esteves The way we visit Port wine cellars (and other wine production centres) has changed profoundly in recent years. The growing wine tourism market and the search for a ‘total experience’ now involves seeing the production processes in their most authentic form, tasting the different wines and understanding their characteristics and, if possible, getting in touch with the architecture where they were historically produced - without neglecting the necessary architectural ‘aggiornamento’ that makes the experience more remarkable. Cockburn's Caves, restored by architect Luís Loureiro (following on from the Grahams Caves) are another good example of ‘transformation in continuity’ - a restoration that is attentive to the material and immaterial values involved, which densifies the visit with layers of knowledge, history and narrative, always supported by a contemporary architectural proposal in a heritage context. *(Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP'19)*

68 São João Bridge Vila Nova de Gaia Infraestruturas 1950-2000 Eng. Edgar Cardoso 1991 Sat 10h00, Prof. Filipe Magalhães (FEUP) / Sat 11h30, Engineer Moutinho Cardoso / Sat 14h30, Engineer Carrasquinha de Freitas reservas marcação pré-marcação The São João bridge was the first of the crossings between Porto and Gaia to be built during Portuguese democracy. This bridge was inaugurated in 1991 to replace the D. Maria Pia railway bridge (1877) which, due to load and speed limitations and the fact that it was single-track, could no longer effectively handle the heavy railway traffic in Porto. Engineer Edgar Cardoso was the author of this bridge, which took seven years to build (1984-1991) and used a sliding formwork construction system, which was an innovation at the time but has since become a standard system in world construction. The São João bridge is 1,140 metres long and is built as a continuous multiple portico of prestressed reinforced concrete, with side pillars and three spans: two side spans of 125 metres and a central span of 250 metres. In 1991 the size of the centre span set a world record for bridges of this type. *(Teresa Novais and Margarida Quintã, OHP'24)*

70 Fire Brigade and Civil Protection Centre Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos 1950-2000 Arq. Castro / Município V.N.Gaia 1997 / 2017 1 per hour, Corps of Fire Brigade The Vila Nova de Gaia Fire Brigade and Civil Protection Centre is a building specifically designed to meet the needs of an institution whose foundation dates back to 1839, with the creation of the Vila Nova de Gaia Fire Company. The equipment that makes up this Barracks, from the space for vehicles, to the recently installed Command and Operations Centre, or the School House, dedicated to the ongoing training of its personnel, responds to the specific infrastructure of the current Fire Battalion. Take this opportunity to see all these buildings and discover the vast array of structures and equipment that enable the Gaia Fire Brigade to operate on a daily basis in a wide range of areas.

71 RTP Studios Vila Nova de Gaia Infraestruturas 1950-2000 Rodrigues Lima (colab. Ramos da Fonseca e Jácome da Costa) / Fernando Lamas 1959 / 2007 Sat 11h00+13h00, Producer Hugo Correia / Sat 15h00, Producer Sandra Lopes / Sun 11h00, Host Hélder Reis There is no true freedom without information, and that has been the role of the RTP Porto Production Centre throughout its existence. What started out as a small regional RTP office (in 1959), essentially associated with a broadcasting antenna to cover the north of the country, ended up becoming a thriving and diversified content production centre, with a strong presence in the daily life of public service television in Portugal. Today, RTP Porto is one of the largest content production centres in the country, with around 300 employees, responsible for 40% of the information and entertainment production for the RTP group's television programme services (on the RTP1, RTP2, RTP3, RTP África and RTP Internacional channels) and radio (on the Antena 1, Antena 2 and Antena 3 stations). Examples are the RTP2 news programme and the Praça da Alegria programme, which began in 1995. *(Teresa Novais and Margarida Quintão, OHP'24)*

73 4 houses in Aguda Vila Nova de Gaia Habitação 1950-2000 Manuel Correia Fernandes 1978 Sat 15h00+16h00, Architect Manuel Correia Fernandes / Sat 17h00, Architect Carlos Machado e Moura In the 1970s, Manuel Correia Fernandes designed four holiday homes in front of the see for four friends. The buildings, which are necessarily economical, are organised around the living room - an open, taller space that brings together various functions, integrating the stairs/circulations to the (necessarily small) bedrooms and the natural relationship with the garden. A single roof seeks to unify the houses and, at the same time, compose the front elevation to the sea. After almost 50 years, it's also important to read the action of time on the architectures, and how each house has undergone different processes of erosion or treatment - ption, alteration or near abandonment. But there is, in spite of everything, an overall design that remains... which good architecture guarantees. *(Joana Couceiro and Nuno Valentim, OHP'19)*

4 Marília House Maia Habitação 2000-Presente - / Ventura+Partners Séc. XX / 2025 Mandatory use of shoe covers indoors, to be provided by the organisation. Located in Maia, Casa Marília is a single-family house set in a large plot of 5,556 m². This refurbishment and extension project is based on a building from the early 20th century - originally known as ‘Casa Brasileira Maria Odete’ - a unique construction in Portugal, marked by the strong influence of Brazilian architecture. Despite its advanced state of disrepair, the building had the status of a heritage site, imposing a significant challenge: reconciling the ption of its historical identity with the demands of contemporary housing. The intervention sought to balance the memory of the past with the comfort and functionality of the present, favouring large spaces for family gatherings and a strong connection with the surrounding garden. Casa Marília is now reborn as a modern and sophisticated residence, incorporating new features such as a garage, laundry room, indoor swimming pool, six bedrooms, large living rooms, kitchen, office and a basement with storage and wine cellar. A project that honours its history while looking to the future. (Ventura+Partners)

51 Duas casas para S. Porto Habitação 2000-Presente colectivoMel 2014 Sat+Sun 10h, 13h30, colectivoMEL When it comes to the field of rehabilitation of our built heritage, we should remember that it is not always necessary to demolish everything or maintain only the façade and build again its interior. In these houses what is proposed is a radically alternative approach where, with the exception of the new elements introduced with great precision, everything else is maintained: the wood structure, the plaster and wood work, but mainly the marks of the passing of time, the worn paint, woods and wallpaper. The visitors will be able to understand this ambiguity between complete rehabilitation or a surgical intervention. Even if it might seem simply like a nostalgic and romantic stance, rapidly one can refute the argument when we see that all this allows also considerable savings in construction costs. (Paula Santos e Ivo Poças Martins, OHP’17)

63 Corpus Christi Space Vila Nova de Gaia Equipamentos Séc. XIX 2000-Presente Padre Pantaleão da Rocha de Magalhães 1675 Sat 20h+22h, Architects Carla Garrido and Maria José Casanova The original Convent of Corpus Christi, built in 1345, was situated a little closer to the River Douro. Due to the floods, a new building was erected in the 17th century at a slightly higher elevation. It includes the convent chapel with an octagonal floor plan designed by Pantaleão Vieira and the high choir commissioned by Prioress Catarina in 1680 from master carpenter Domingos Lopes. The space is decorated with high-quality carvings with plant designs and the ceiling, divided into 49 coffered ceilings, depicts saints from both the Dominican Order and other orders, with the fifteen central panels alluding to the life and death of Jesus. The recent restoration work has helped to give visibility to one of the city's best-kept treasures. *(Graça Correia and Joel Cleto, OHP'22)*