Outra dissertação de mestrado...

Os bloggers estrangeiros já estão a falar da nossa genialidade. Qual o multiplicador de crescimento gerado por mudar o Museu dos Coches de um palácio do século XVIII para um edifício de arquitectura moderna? Inquiring minds want to know...

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 royal lineage. It has now been relocated into a typical abomination of modern architecture, designed specifically to fly in the face of all that is Portugal.

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A raspberry to Lisbon for planning to move its beloved coach museum, the Museu Nacional dos Coches, from its graceful home at a 1787 royal palace to what looks like a parking garage. One mustn’t blame the pathetic architect, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (a Pritzker Prize winner, naturally). He is a hired gun.

~ David Brussat

Se calhar faz parte do programa de apoio à construção civil.