School of Technology Higher Education Institution

Architecture Design Award Winner.
Awarded for Good Architecture, Building and Structure Design.

School of Technology Higher Education Institution
by Nuno Montenegro

Awarded April 15, 2014
CLIENT: Polytechnic Institute of Beja
46.298

The key feature of this building is a massive portico that floats over the school gardens. The structure arises from the combination of the two programmatic requirements. The need to create an institutional iconic image, and the inclusion of a set of amphitheatres. The result is achieved in one of the largest concrete structures in the world. In an article published in the Design Magazine, CC Sullivan wrote: Montenegro's School of Technology and Management never fails to create opportunities for reflection. The theatricality and grandeur are unmatched elsewhere...

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