ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 1 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/315475/environmental-interpretation-centre-in-sao-jorge-island-ana-laura-vasconcelos Sat, 03 Aug 2019 16:00:00 +0000 Diego Hernández https://www.archdaily.com/315475/environmental-interpretation-centre-in-sao-jorge-island-ana-laura-vasconcelos An interpretive center is a building devoted to a didactic-pedagogic perspective that seeks, above all, to make known "in situ" space, theme, or content in which it appears. Thus, the Interpretation Centre of the Faja da Caldeira de Santo Cristo is part of a global intervention idea that the Regional Secretariat of the Environment and the Sea has been developing in the region, which was established with a set of criteria for the suitability of the place, as well as a specific program that appeals to the "internalization", dissemination and development of the natural heritage in question./ 

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/314373/environmental-interpretation-centre-in-flores-island-azores-ana-laura-vasconcelos Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Diego Hernández https://www.archdaily.com/314373/environmental-interpretation-centre-in-flores-island-azores-ana-laura-vasconcelos The Past
This project is clearly a story – a story made up of stories of the sea and whale hunting in the Azores; a story of an island – the clear expression of insularity – closely related to the memory of a people and a tradition highly dignified in the past, both in human and professional terms. A story of a Whale Factory in ruins (one of the largest in the Azores), pleading to be more than a long forgotten heritage. Pleading to exist. Or resist… 

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