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Starting this Monday, the 14th, Rua de Alexandre Braga will be closed to traffic. On that day, work begins to transform this street around the Bolhão Market into a pedestrian street.

The first stage of works of Matadouro de Campanhã is complete. The construction work, conducted by the company Mota Engil, included the cleaning of the area, demolitions, earthmoving, and the drilling of existing structures, in addition to experimenting materials to be used in the reconstruction of the building. The Japanese architect Kengo Kuma visited this iconic project, carried out in partnership with the award-winning Portuguese architects of OODA.

A delegation from the Brazilian technology park “Porto Digital” was in Porto to observe the urban rehabilitation process that has been carried out in the city and to share technical experience.

After winning two competitions for the creation of two kindergartens – in Reykjavik and in Garðabær – the Porto architects were once again chosen for a project in Iceland, this time a community centre in Höfn.

At the international forum Urban Future 22, in Helsingborg, Sweden, the Mayor of Porto explained, in detail, the city’s plans for that space.

The interventions in Palácio dos Correios, in M.O.Co and Eurostars Aliados hotels, and in the Edifício Litografia Lusitana earned Porto the leadership of the National Award for Urban Rehabilitation.

September scenario will make it possible to have a greater number of traders and working spaces at the inauguration, since delays resulting from the contract made it impossible to deliver the keys on the initially scheduled dates.