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RAIAT
Trofa Town Hall — NOARQ
In RAIAT Pedro Cardigo takes us on a tour of the new Trofa Town Hall, designed by the NOARQ studio and signed by architect José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira. Through the use of black and white, the building reveals itself as a sculptural and silent body, where light and shadow construct a visual narrative of great intensity.
The eye is drawn to the contrasts, the rigorous geometries, the juxtapositions and the transitional spaces that give the work its symbolic and institutional dimension. Each image is an invitation to contemplate architecture as an experience and presence in the territory.
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.
Architecture deserves to be read as carefully as it is built.