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The Serralves Foundation is hosting the launch of the book Mercado do Bolhão, by Nuno Miguel Borges, about the restoration of the emblematic building in Porto.

The talk at the launch session will include architect Martin Boesch, poet João Luís Barreto Guimarães and the director of the Serralves Museum, Philippe Vergne, moderated by Joana Couceiro. André Cepeda, author of the photographic essay, Nuno Valentim, author of the architectural project, and the publisher will be present. The book Mercado do Bolhão is a memoir of the refurbishment process, produced by various authors, which helps to understand the intervention and the important building in the city of Porto.

The fifth volume of the NMB collection is a memoir by various authors that helps us to know and understand the intervention and the important building in the city of Porto. A book to read and keep on your bookshelf.

The editorial project for the book Mercado do Bolhão began in 2015, during the last months of commercial activity, before the construction site was set up, and ended in 2023, with photographs of the rehabilitated and operational Bolhão. Over the course of eight years, the work to realise the rehabilitation project was monitored, allowing for the creation of a future memory of the profound intervention in the building that is part of the identity of the city of Porto.

Throughout the book, with a photo essay by André Cepeda, we remember the past and observe the present with 83 photographs of before, during and after the work. The book includes an interview by the editor, Nuno Miguel Borges, with Nuno Valentim, author of the architectural project, about the building, the choices made, the refurbishment and the final result.