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Casa da Música

Casa da Música is a major concert hall space in Porto, Portugal which houses the cultural institution of the same name with its three orchestras Orchestra Nacional do Porto, Orchestra Barroca und Remix Ensemble. It was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas with Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Arup-AFA, and was built as part of Porto's project for European Culture Capital in 2001 but was only finished in the first half of 2005 and immediately became an icon in the city. The Building engineers were Ove Arup - London together with Afassociados, Oporto.










Related: Casa da Música, Office for Metropolitan Architecture

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I like its context, on a crossing down town Porto, hence the general form and shape of the exterior.

January 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM

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