The International Architecture Awards, which aim to recognize excellence in architecture and urbanism from a global perspective, distinguished the Bolhão Market rehabilitation project by architect Nuno Valentim, a professor at FAUP.

Since 2004, the International Architecture Awards have been presented by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art, Design and Urban Studies. With the mission of honoring the best and most significant new buildings, landscape architecture projects and urbanism at a global level, the awards offer a comprehensive view of contemporary aesthetics in the practice of architecture in different typologies.

The Bolhão Market rehabilitation project is a paradigmatic case of intervention, restoration and conservation of built heritage, introducing new contemporary demands for accessibility, comfort and transparency in the relationship with the surrounding urban structure. The Bolhão building and market was originally designed in 1914-1917 by architect António Correia da Silva.

The rehabilitation project has already won several awards, including the National Urban Rehabilitation Award (with distinctions in the areas of best intervention for commercial use and services, best structural rehabilitation and best intervention in the city of Porto), SIL Imobiliário (Best Urban Rehabilitation/Commerce, Services and Offices) and Construir (Best Rehabilitation Project and Best Commerce and Services Space). In addition to these distinctions, it also won the Graphis silver design award in the United States. It was a finalist for the European Award - Architectural Heritage Intervention l Urban Land Institute.

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