Atelier Menos é Mais wins the AICA 2023 Prize - ARCHITECTURE.
The choice of awarding the architecture prize to Cristina Guedes and Francisco Vieira de Campos was justified on the basis of the refurbishment of the ‘A Nacional’ Insurance Company building - initially designed by Porto architect José Marques da Silva - ‘due to the subtlety of the interventions in the original building, which could be called surgical’. The intervention ‘allowed for a delicate adaptation of use without creating dissonance, with special attention to the invisibility of the infrastructures. It thus constitutes an exemplary contribution to the current debates surrounding the rehabilitation and reuse of architectural heritage and its integration into the city.
Awarded in partnership between the Portuguese section of the AICA and the Ministério da Cultura, through the Direcção-Geral das Artes, and the Fundação Millennium bcp.
