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PNK

Panike Headquarters — NOARQ

In PNK Pedro Cardigo approaches the Panike headquarters in Maia as one who listens to an architecture that speaks through silence. The project designed by the NOARQ studio and signed by architect José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, unfolds in black and white, a choice that distills the building to its essence: light, shadow, proportion, and rhythm. Between austere exteriors and restrained interiors, the structure emerges as a precise and subtle body, where every plane seems designed to converse with light.

The images follow the density of white surfaces, the vibration of voids, the disciplined geometry, and the symbolic presence of the sculpture that anchors the main atrium. This is not a descriptive account, but an attempt to capture the building's breath: light that shapes, shadow that reveals, pauses that give meaning. Photography becomes an act of attentive listening. The building is not merely observed, it is unveiled.

The book
136 pages
59 photographs
Design Report
Technical Drawings
150g matte paper
Softcover
Smyth Sew Binding
20×28cm
ISBN 978-9-89-338611-8
Credits
Texts byGémeo Luis and Pedro Cardigo
Edited and photographed byPedro Cardigo
Part of arch+ — an editorial collection of photographic essays on built architecture, each volume a single project read as an inhabited place shaped by time, use and light.
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