Tag Archives: Portugal

Save secret park in Lisbon

Posted on March 22, 2021 by David Brussat

One of the worst things that can befall a dear old municipal park and garden is for “preservationists” to ride to its rescue. First, it may not be in need of rescue. Second, the preservationists are likely to want to … Continue reading →

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Poetic justice in Portugal?

Posted on February 11, 2018 by David Brussat

In what may be the first major demolition based on aesthetic considerations, Viana do Castelo, a city in northern Portugal, plans to demolish a modernist residental tower that, in 1973, deflowered the character of its historic center. Not surprisingly, the … Continue reading →

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Porto beauty trumps video

Posted on November 23, 2016 by David Brussat

Last night I posted a Kuriositas video of Madrid that, using time-lapse and hyper-lapse videography caught the beauty of Spain’s capital. It was by by Kirill Neiezhmakov. I visited his website and found a video, “A Day in Porto,” Portugal’s … Continue reading →

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Save the Porto pavilions

Posted on November 1, 2016 by David Brussat

A year ago plans emerged in Portugal to replace the old pavilions of the old market in Porto with new pavilions of a  high-tech appearance. The existing market stalls of the Bolhão should not be replaced but restored. A post, … Continue reading →

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Lisbon’s new coach museum

Posted on August 1, 2016 by David Brussat

I’d hate to be the architect of a new building that was described this way: With its white cobblestone pavements, Moorish-tiled facades, and pastelarias (cakeshops) on every corner, visitors to Lisbon frequently feel that they’ve stumbled into a fairytale. So … Continue reading →

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Save market in Porto, Port.

Posted on July 29, 2015 by David Brussat

The blog Old Portuguese Stuff is crusading to save the interior of the Mercado do Bolhäo, in Porto, one of Portugal’s most storied cities. It is home to the British architect and engineer Malcolm Millais, author of Exploding the Myths … Continue reading →

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Inside Lisbon’s new garage

Posted on June 15, 2015 by David Brussat

Sebastião Durão has sent me two photos from inside the new Coach Museum in Lisbon. He adds: “You should illustrate your post with some pictures of the inside of the new garage, sorry, museum. Isn’t it lovely?” His point and … Continue reading →

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For readers in Portugal

Posted on June 7, 2015 by David Brussat

Readers in Portugal and elsewhere who are enjoying my post about the Coach Museum in Lisbon might also enjoy the post published after it on styles of the two horse-racing trophies won yesterday, and the two previous posts: “7 brides … Continue reading →

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Lisbon’s coach catastrophe

Posted on June 6, 2015 by David Brussat

Malcolm Millais, author of the explosive Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture (2009) sends sad news from Portugal. Lisbon’s delightful and elegant Coach Museum, long the nation’s most popular museum, had been housed in a perfectly lovely building of impeccable … Continue reading →

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The classical vernacular

Posted on February 23, 2015 by David Brussat

These capitals above by Portuguese architect Raul Lino (1879-1974), with more shots linked to down below, were sent by Malcolm Millais, author of Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture (2009), as an antidote (I think) to the snow in Providence, … Continue reading →

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