Hotel Dom Henrique
The Hotel Dom Henrique is a four-star hotel in the Portuguese city of Porto . It was built to designs by the two architects Pádua Ramos and Carlos Loureiro and inaugurated in 1973. It is named after the Portuguese Infant D. Henrique .
The building was originally designed as an office building. It was only shortly before completion that the client Afonso Pinto de Magalhães decided to set up a hotel of the upper category.
The house gains its importance because of its urban development function and as the first high-rise in the city made of concrete.
literature
- Postage 1901-2001. Guia de Arquitectura Moderna. Postage, 2001
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Coordinates: 41 ° 9 ′ 8 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 26.1 ″ W.