And the best Building of the Year is…the Cruise Terminal of Leixões – Express

The site architecture most visited in the world, announced this Tuesday the list of 16 most beautiful buildings of 2017, chosen on the basis of the votes of more than 75 thousand people throughout the year. Among the three thousand buildings selected, the beautiful Cruise Terminal of Port of Leixões, designed by architect Luis Pedro Silva, won in the category of best ‘Public Building’, an award that joins to the distinctions of ‘Best Port of the Year’, the Seatrade Awards 2015, the tribute of the ‘AZAwards’, the prestigious competition of the canadian, which every year elects the best in the world at the level of architecture and design, or the classification as ” Best Public Project in the Ma gazine Build.

For Emilio Brògueira Days, the president of the Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo (APDL), the recognition of the white Terminal lines on the spiral, built 700 metres from the coast in Matosinhos, comes to contribute "without doubt, for the projection of the Port of Leixões and to the Porto Metropolitan Area in the world".

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Distinguished at the top of the category ‘Houses’ of the ArchDaily figure still a private dwelling House, Cable Villa, in Bitarães, the project of an atelier of architecture of the Walls, the Sapceworkers, which turned out to be elected the best among the five finalists. The Sapceworkers, atelier creative architecture, and furniture design from Carla Duarte, Henrique Marques and Rui Dinis, repeats the award in the category had already won in 2015.