"Casa da Música" Study

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“The House of Music” is the main concert hall of Oporto in Portugal. It was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, as part of the event Oporto European Capital of Culture in 2001. Revealing all their proficiency and ingenuity in the operated metamorphosis, Rem presented a House of Music that reflects a statement of style, an aesthetic convention, an unmistakable author mark. The building was only completed in 2005, immediately becoming an icon of the city.

 

The building has brought new challenges to engineering in order to achieve its unique geometric shape. Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic of the New York Times ranked the House of Music as “the most attractive project that the architect has ever built” and as “a building whose intellectual ardour is matched by its sensual beauty.” He said: “Looking at just the building’s original appearance, it turns out that this is one of the most important concert halls built in the last 100 years”.