The new Vodafone headquarter in Porto is a truly remarkable work of architecture, designed by architects José António Barbosa and Pedro Guimarães of Barbosa Guimarães Arquitectos. Called Oporto Vodafone Building, the project has a faceted concrete shell with angular windows.

The architects’ wish to reflect Vodafone’s tagline “Vodafone Life, Life in Motion” lead to the creation of a building that challenges the static and appears to be out of balance. Three of the angular building’s eight floors are underground. The cross-section reveals an uneven footprint almost as if the entire structure had fallen from sky at a great speed and crashed itself into the earth where it now sits, only partly exposed and slightly disheveled.

I’d reckon Portugal would be a nice holiday destination for Architecture students or practicians, with Oporto Vodafone, Rem Koolhas’ Casa da Musica, Winery Quinto da Portal, Hotel AXIS, Dragao Caixa, Troia Design Hotel, and many more.

Images © Fernando Guerra & Nelson Garrido

VIA DeZeen