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1958-1963 · Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal

Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal

18°C · 13.6h daylight · 15 km/h wind

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Boa Nova Tea House

Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal · Exact work coordinates

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Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal

Climate: 18°C · 13.6h daylight · 15 km/h wind

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Field	Boa Nova Tea House 1958-1963 · Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal	Mass Studies Seoul, South Korea
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1958-1963	Unrecorded
Place	Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal	Seoul, South Korea
Place context	Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal	Representative site: Seoul, South Korea
Climate	18°C · 13.6h daylight · 15 km/h wind	9°C · 13.4h daylight · 4 km/h wind · via S-Trenue Tower
Focus	Tea house and restaurant	2 works in corpus
Architects	Alvaro Siza	Mass Studies Minsuk Cho
Linked context	Bureaus Álvaro Siza Vieira	Notable works S-Trenue Tower Boutique Monaco
Typologies	hospitality coastal building restaurant	mixed use offices residential housing tower office
Materials	concrete wood glass	glass
Carbon signals	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	Alvaro Siza: Complete Works	No linked books yet.