Domus Srilanka - November 2016

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In the centre of the Portuguese capital, the architectural work of Inês Lobo creates a new urban area which is a place of worship, a place of study, and a plaza. By opening a gap in a continuous façade, she has created a public space between two streets – the large urban high street rua Palma and rua Benformoso which lies behind – which were previously separated.
An unusual request – a more harmonious inclusion within its natural surroundings of a monumental Buddha statue in a cemetery near Sapporo – prompted the Japanese master and his assistants to produce a project on landscape scale that adopts a few refined architectural features to celebrate the solemnity and spirituality of the subject and its location.
The exemplary recent project by this Irish husband-and-wife team proposes a complex functional solution between diverse buildings old and new, all lying on different site levels. The volumes were patiently stitched together and carefully juxtaposed on a steep urban slope.