Architectural Record 2015-02
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD FEBRUARY <strong>2015</strong> BUILDING TYPE STUDY RENOVATION, RESTORATION, ADAPTATION<br />
Boa Nova Restaurant and Teahouse | Leça da Palmeira, Portugal | Álvaro Siza Vieira<br />
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A Pritzker Prize winner turns<br />
back the clock, restoring one of<br />
his first works of architecture<br />
after it had fallen into disrepair.<br />
BY DAVID COHN<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOAO MORGADO<br />
dlvaro Siza’s restoration of his first building, the<br />
Boa Nova Restaurant and Teahouse, five decades<br />
after it opened in 1963, is the happy ending to<br />
what could have been an architectural tragedy.<br />
The casual pavilion, snuggled into a rocky<br />
promontory on Portugal’s Atlantic coast, in the<br />
town of Leça da Palmeira, 6 miles north of Porto,<br />
was left empty by its municipal owners in 2011 and vandalized<br />
by thieves, who ripped out copper gutters and wiring for<br />
salvage, destroyed the roof and interiors, and left the structure<br />
open to the elements.
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