The new office building is located in the heart of the Porto’s emerging Business Zone and follows the recent completion of the nearby Porto Office Park, which was also designed by Broadway Malyan and was voted the best new office in several awards in Portugal.

The new 19,000sqm project, which is being funded in a joint venture between Sonae Sierra and Ferreira Group, includes an nine-storey office building linked to a second smaller building with two restaurants and a health club, wrapped around a new internal garden that will be open for public use.

The office design is also highly sustainable with a rainwater reuse system, photovoltaic panels, LED lights throughout, electric car charging stations and bicycle parking with changing facilities, with the aspiration to achieve a high standard LEED certification.

The buildings have also been designed with a highly efficient façade with a combination of GRC panels and bronze vertical fins, controlling the natural daylight into the offices and reducing the levels of internal energy consumption.

The interior spaces have the same elegance and scale of the facades with a double height reception space punctuated with bronze fins and white walls while pots of trees link the internal spaces with the public park.