Prédio Abreu, Santos e Rocha

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The square "Praça dos Trabalhadores" with the Prédio Abreu, Santos e Rocha (left) and the Prédio Spence e Lemos (right)
North-west facade of the building (towards Avenida Guerra Popular )
Southwest facade to Praça dos Trabalhadores

The Prédio Abreu, Santos e Rocha , in English "Abreu, Santos and Rocha building", is an office building with modernist architecture in the Mozambican capital Maputo . The building, designed in 1954–56, is located on the corner of Avenida da Guerra Popular / Rua Consiglieri Pedro , or on Praça dos Trabalhadores .

Pancho Guedes designed the office building in 1953, according to other sources between 1954 and 1956. The seven-story building is L-shaped, with one side facing today's Avenida da Guerra Popular and the other facing Rua Consiglieri Pedro . The three completely different facades are particularly striking: towards the Guerra Popular, a wall relief with opaque and translucent elements; on the corner, between the two parts of the building, a large wall mosaic made of pebbles with traditional, African themes and, facing the Consiglieri Pedro, a facade with numerous vertical sun protection elements.

Today the building houses offices of the state oil company Petromoc .

It is registered with the number 31688 in the Portuguese monument database Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico , which also includes works by former Portuguese colonies.

literature

  • Edifício Abreu, Santos e Rocha , pp. 170–174, in: Ana Magalhães and Inês Gonçalves: Moderno Tropical. Arquitectura em Angola e Mozambique, 1948-1975. Tinta da China, Lisbon, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Prédio Abreu, Santos e Rocha  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • [1] [2] Pictures of the building
    • [3] Detail of the facade

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Tiago Lourenço: Edifício Abreu, Santos e Rocha. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico (SIPA). 2011, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ José Manuel Fernandes: Prédio Abreu, Santos e Rocha. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 18, 2012, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).

Coordinates: 25 ° 58 ′ 16.1 ″  S , 32 ° 33 ′ 57.4 ″  E