Banif

The building is located at the bottom of José Malhoa Avenue, in an area which it indicated, would become Lisbon’s financial district. This place is part of a mixed and little cohesive area of housing blocks, offices and hotels.The new headquarters project has developed from this urban context and the concern to meet the client’s objectives at the same time. Thus, the building would have to constitute an architectural reference point and project the bank to the central plan of the financial markets in Portugal.The final project resulted in a building consisting of two deliberately contrasting parts.A lower five-storey, granite-lined block was arranged orthogonally with an eleven-storey transparent glass tower. The façade has two skins separa... More