Here's a thread about the wonderful but underappreciated concentration of modernist architectural gems in Faro and the Eastern Algarve. Photos taken last summer #ModernistFaro 🇵🇹🧵
August 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Here's a thread about the wonderful but underappreciated concentration of modernist architectural gems in Faro and the Eastern Algarve. Photos taken last summer #ModernistFaro 🇵🇹🧵
There's so much to love #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
There's so much to love #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
Cantilevered porches are a recurring design feature in the modernist buildings in Faro. Here are some fine examples #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Cantilevered porches are a recurring design feature in the modernist buildings in Faro. Here are some fine examples #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
One of the delightful aspects of the modernist buildings in Faro and the Algarve is the way that they continue and update the Portuguese tradition of incorporating decorative tiles or azulejos #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹😍
August 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
One of the delightful aspects of the modernist buildings in Faro and the Algarve is the way that they continue and update the Portuguese tradition of incorporating decorative tiles or azulejos #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹😍
Back on Praia de Faro we find this remarkable house facing onto the lagoon. Not sure who designed it or when it was built #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Back on Praia de Faro we find this remarkable house facing onto the lagoon. Not sure who designed it or when it was built #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
Here's a larger and more recent Manuel Gomes da Costa project in central Faro. Quarteirao Branco was built in 1987 and includes residential and office blocks decorated with modernist azulejos #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Here's a larger and more recent Manuel Gomes da Costa project in central Faro. Quarteirao Branco was built in 1987 and includes residential and office blocks decorated with modernist azulejos #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
The gorgeous Church of Santa Luzia (around 35km from Faro, and just outside Tavira) is another gem designed by Manuel Gomes da Costa. It dates from around 1960. #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The gorgeous Church of Santa Luzia (around 35km from Faro, and just outside Tavira) is another gem designed by Manuel Gomes da Costa. It dates from around 1960. #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
Here are some useful resources about the modernist buildings in Faro and the Eastern Algarve. The Pocket Sights app has these fab walking tours #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
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August 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Here are some useful resources about the modernist buildings in Faro and the Eastern Algarve. The Pocket Sights app has these fab walking tours #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
Faro pocketsights.com/tours/tour/F...
Praia de Faro pocketsights.com/tours/tour/F...
Around the Algarve pocketsights.com/tours/locati...
Faro pocketsights.com/tours/tour/F...
Praia de Faro pocketsights.com/tours/tour/F...
Around the Algarve pocketsights.com/tours/locati...
A short ferry ride from Faro city centre is Praia de Faro which has some stunning beachfront houses, including this one designed by Manuel Gomes da Costa in 1959 #ModernistFaro #MidCenturyModern🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A short ferry ride from Faro city centre is Praia de Faro which has some stunning beachfront houses, including this one designed by Manuel Gomes da Costa in 1959 #ModernistFaro #MidCenturyModern🧵🇵🇹
Local architect Manuel Gomes da Costa was the leading light in the Algarve's modernist movement of the 1950s, taking inspiration from International Style buildings in Brazil and beyond. This is his Alfonso House in Faro, completed in 1960 #ModernistFaro #MidCenturyModern 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Local architect Manuel Gomes da Costa was the leading light in the Algarve's modernist movement of the 1950s, taking inspiration from International Style buildings in Brazil and beyond. This is his Alfonso House in Faro, completed in 1960 #ModernistFaro #MidCenturyModern 🧵🇵🇹
Back in Faro, there are lots of more modest modernist homes built in the 1950s around Rua dos Bombeiros Portugueses, Rua Emiliano Costa, Rua Ataide de Oliveira, Rua Emiliano Costa and Rua Ataide de Oliveira #ModernistFaro #MidCenturyModern 🧵🇵🇹
August 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Back in Faro, there are lots of more modest modernist homes built in the 1950s around Rua dos Bombeiros Portugueses, Rua Emiliano Costa, Rua Ataide de Oliveira, Rua Emiliano Costa and Rua Ataide de Oliveira #ModernistFaro #MidCenturyModern 🧵🇵🇹
Here's the Aeromar Hotel on Praia de Faro, designed by the very prolific Manuel Gomes da Costa in the late 1950s #ModernistFaro #MidCenturyModern 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Here's the Aeromar Hotel on Praia de Faro, designed by the very prolific Manuel Gomes da Costa in the late 1950s #ModernistFaro #MidCenturyModern 🧵🇵🇹
Manuel Gomes da Costa designed this Chelsea Café Building in Faro during the early 1970s. Love the tiles on this one #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Manuel Gomes da Costa designed this Chelsea Café Building in Faro during the early 1970s. Love the tiles on this one #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
The Modernist Hotel in Faro (themodernist.pt) is owned by Angélique and Christophe De Oliveira who have helped raise the profile of the city's fantastic architecture. They organise Faro's Modernist Weekend (themodernistweekend.com) #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Modernist Hotel in Faro (themodernist.pt) is owned by Angélique and Christophe De Oliveira who have helped raise the profile of the city's fantastic architecture. They organise Faro's Modernist Weekend (themodernistweekend.com) #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
The stunning Casa Gogo was designed in 1955 by Manuel Gomes da Costa for a wealthy client who had emigrated from Venezuela. The house needs some TLC but looks very original. #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹😍
August 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The stunning Casa Gogo was designed in 1955 by Manuel Gomes da Costa for a wealthy client who had emigrated from Venezuela. The house needs some TLC but looks very original. #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹😍
Another recurring design element is the cobogó, a concrete lattice that provides shade and ventilation (more info at archdaily.com/875130/cobog...). These examples are on Blue Tropical, one of Faro's largest residential buildings from the early 1970s #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Another recurring design element is the cobogó, a concrete lattice that provides shade and ventilation (more info at archdaily.com/875130/cobog...). These examples are on Blue Tropical, one of Faro's largest residential buildings from the early 1970s #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
Another Manuel Gomes da Costa design and some more cool tiles/azulejos. The Nogueira Building in central Faro dates from 1966. It is lifted by pilotis at ground level and features decorative aluminium sun breaks #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Another Manuel Gomes da Costa design and some more cool tiles/azulejos. The Nogueira Building in central Faro dates from 1966. It is lifted by pilotis at ground level and features decorative aluminium sun breaks #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
Here's the stunning tiled entrance of the Church of Santa Luzia featuring a fishing boat. The small village is known as the "capital do polvo" or "capital of octopus" #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
August 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Here's the stunning tiled entrance of the Church of Santa Luzia featuring a fishing boat. The small village is known as the "capital do polvo" or "capital of octopus" #ModernistFaro 🧵🇵🇹
