Three award-winning Portuguese projects

Three Portuguese projects are among the winners of the International Prize Building of the Year 2015, awarded by Archdaily,

an online platform for information and dissemination of architecture which counts 350,000 daily visits and annually awards projects that stand out for innovation: spatial, social, material and technical.

Among the 9 Portuguese projects nominated for the BOTY'2015, three of them were victorious.

The winners of the 14 architecture award categories were announced today by the organization, after a second online voting phase in competing 70 finalists chosen from a universe of 3,500 projects around the world.

The Portuguese projects won in the categories of Offices (Álvaro Siza Vieira and Carlos Castanheira), Cultural Architecture (OTO studio for Cape Verde), and Houses (Sambade, Spaceworkers studio).

The Building on the Water (China) | Álvaro Siza Vieira + Carlos Castanheira | © Fernando Guerra | FG + SG

Fogo Natural Park Venue (Cape Verde) | OTO | © Fernando Guerra | FG + SG

Sambade House (Portugal) | spaceworkers | © Fernando Guerra | FG + SG

Besides the winners, were finalists in the Housing category, the DM2 Housing from the studio OODA, and in the Hospitality category, the White Wolf Hotel, from the studio AND-RÉ, Casa no Tempo for architects Aires Mateus and João and Andreia Rodrigues, the Ozadi Hotel from Pedro Campos Costa, in the Refurbishment category, the project JA House, by Filipe Pina and Maria Inês Costa, and the Arts Centre Nadir Afonso, by Louise Braverman, in the Cultural Architecture category.