Porto Cruise Terminal awarded with International Architecture and Design Prize

Friday, July 22, 2016 - 12:16 by leixoes

Elite players from the international architecture and design community came together on June 17 at Toronto's historic Evergreen Brick Works as Azure revealed the winners of its sixth annual ‘AZ Awards'.

In March, a distinguished panel has gathered in Toronto to narrow down the 826 entries from 52 countries to a shortlist of 66 finalists, which included the Porto Cruise Terminal. From there, 18 extraordinary winners were now honoured with an ‘AZ Award'.

Porto Cruise Terminal won the category of ‘Commercial / Institutional Architecture over 1,000 Square Metres'. This award restates the excellence of the new Porto Cruise Terminal, strengthening its reputation among major international cruise companies, which have been increasingly considering Leixões as a mandatory port of call bringing more and more visitors to Porto and North destination.

Porto Cruise Terminal was design by the Portuguese Architect Luís Pedro Silva.

Porto Cruise Terminal awarded with International Architecture and Design Prize

AZ Awards 2016 (c) Port of Leixões

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The Porto Cruise Terminal (Port of Leixões) is the main gateway by sea to Porto – the city of the Port Wine and the appropriate place to welcome all passengers from cruise liners. Equipped with comfortable facilities for tourists, Leixões features two cruise terminals. The Leixões Passenger Terminal is a wooden construction that resembles a ship’s hull, and is considered an important architectural and historical heritage. Since April 2011, it is in operation a new cruise quay 340m long and 300m length for berth (up to 320m upon request). Since then, the biggest and the most glamorous cruise ships from the worldwide cruise fleet are welcome here, boosting the cruise tourism in the North of Portugal region. The Porto Cruise Terminal it is in full operation since March 2015 and the main building has a capacity for 2.500 passengers in turnaround. Porto Cruise Terminal was planned to improve the whole cruise visitor experience!