UPTEC Startup is nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Prize

This year's finalists of the European Union prestigious award Mies van der Rohe for Contemporary Architecture include the Rosmaminho+Azevedo architecture studio.The startup was incubated at UPTEC - Science and Technology Park at the University of Porto and enters the competition with the work developed at the Interpretative Centre of Vale do Tua.

The Rosmaminho+Azevedo had already won international recognition at the Jury's Special Award of the Archizinc Trophy - VMZinc 2018 and was also a finalist of the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture (AREA) Prize. About 383 projects have been picked out for this edition, from 38 different countries.

Seventeen Portuguese projects enter the competition, namely the two Portuguese Pritzkers and professors at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto Moura.

The Interpretative Centre of Vale do Tua was inaugurated last February and it was the first project developed by the Rosmaninho+Azevedo. The project comprises two old railway warehouses in the Douro railroad.

The buildings are now regional promotion venues, built in wood and in corrugated zinc and host an exhibition that promotes the natural and historic wealth of the Vale do Tua territory.

The biennial Prize Mies van der Rohe 2019 will be presented at a ceremony on 7 May in Barcelona. The first edition of the Mies van der Rohe Award was held in 1988 and it recognised the work by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira on the Bank Borges e Irmão.

The Mies van der Rohe Award was named after the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture. This prize is promoted by the European Union and it is organised by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation.