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A Casa do Conto was born three years ago, in order to give birth a different project, among the growing hotel choice in the city of Porto.
Unfortunately, a terrible fire, in March 2009, stopped the process, however it always remained the collective will to carry out an unique and different project. At the time, they were many people, who, in an act of generosity, paid homage and helped the start of the new project.
The House rises again, completely renewed,- it will open its doors to the public at the beginning of July- with the aim of once again, bothering the residential offer of the city, generic and impersonal as never before .
The Casa do Conto, tells us about a unique story of life, that in the end, it is the story of the changing city itself. Inside the house, a domestic, solemn and vertical architecture stands out, typical from the OPorto XIX century, marked by the scars of the time between its decline and its revival, a memory from the past and the desire of the future, the granite from the old facades and the reinforced concrete of the stairs and of the ceilings. It is, in true, about a fossil architecture that gained life.
Engraved by several texts and covering six different bedrooms, these ceilings tell us about the changes suffered by its own concept of “house”. Written by authors related to the city and its arquitecture - Filipa Leal, Álvaro Domingues, Jorge Figueira, André Tavares, Pedro Bandeira e Nuno Grande- these six rooms were molded and cut out in concrete, whithin an architectural distribution proposed by the architects of Pedra Liquida and graphically imagined by the creative team of R2 Design. This solution, that points out the different personality of each space, has already been awarded by the 2011 SEGD Design Awards and the Golden Award from the European Design awards in the category of “Signs & Displays”. The Casa do Conto will still appear in the next edition of the A10 New European Architecture having being photographed by Alberto Plácido and Fernando Guerra.
The Casa do Conto proposes a new hotelier concept – arts & residence- offering a customized lodging service, focused on guests, that wish to combine their rest with the discovering of the OPorto cultural offer; that wish to create, to exhibit or to debate the city they visit. For that reason the house will also have a regular events program in collaboration with different creators, curators, groups and cultural institutions of the city. For the opening period the Casa do Conto has made a partnership with the library / gallery Inc.- books and authors editions.
Come to discover the Casa do Conto, in Boavista street, in the circuit between the Casa da Musica and Miguel Bombarda Street, near to the historic city center of OPorto, between the Lapa and Carolina Michaellis metro station.
At the door of nº 703, you can read “ It was 513”, the House reappears one and another time with the same facade with the doorknocker with the iron hand, that insists in giving back to the city, the memories that it does not want to forget.