Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

Description: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
Rua D.Joใo de Castro 210
Porto
Portugal
www.serralves.pt/

Architect : Alvaro Siza (year 1997)

from : http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/serralves/
The new Museum of Contemporary Art is in the Quinta de Serralves, a property comprising a large house surrounded by gardens, woods and meadows, commissioned in the 1930s to serve as a private residence and later used as an exhibition space. The museum develops a new nucleus on the grounds of an existing orchard and vegetable garden, which have now been transplanted to another area of the property, and absorbs most of the functions previously performed by the main house. The site at the edge of the garden and near an existing boundary wall was chosen due to the proximity of the main avenue, ensuring easy public access, and the absence of large trees, which otherwise would have had to be destroyed.

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