Projects by Portuguese architects won four of the top prizes out of 14 categories in the 2014 Archdaily Building of the Year Awards, organized by the online publication, according to the list published on Thursday. In the Health Architecture category, the architects Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus were awarded the top prize for the new building […]
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Architecture: Portuguese architects win four top ArchDaily Year Awards – USA
Posted on 30 January 2014.
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Portugal/UK: Let the battle of the books begin!
– by Len Port
Posted on 30 January 2014.
Authorities in Britain are being tight-lipped at the outset of what could become a prolonged historical wrangle involving the world’s two oldest allies. A unique collection of books plundered during the darkest days of the centuries-old treaty between Portugal and Britain has been cosseted in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford for more […]
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– by Len Port
Portugal: Syrian chemical arsenal to be transshipped via the Azores – Washington, DC
Posted on 29 January 2014.
Portugal will allow the United States to use a port in the Azores for the transshipping of chemical materials from Syria, as an option, said the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rui Machete, in Washington, Wednesday. In a statement at the end of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, he said that […]
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LGBT: Gay community fighting to keep adoption rights – Portugal
Posted on 29 January 2014.
The Portuguese gay community is protesting against the approval by Parliament of a referendum to annul the right of same sex couples to adopt their partners’ children. The referendum, approved on January 17, passed with a narrow majority from the center-right government coalition of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. Currently in Portugal same sex married […]
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Essay: The Barcelos Cock and The Waste Land
– by George Monteiro
Posted on 28 January 2014.
In “What the Thunder Said,” the fifth and final section of The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem of 1922, there is a mysterious and intriguing (albeit brief) scene in which moonlight shines over a deserted mountain chapel where “only a cock” stands “on the rooftree,” crowing “co co rico co co rico.” Lightning […]
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– by George Monteiro
Portugal: Rui Machete to meet John Kerry for talks over Lajes – Washington,DC
Posted on 28 January 2014.
The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Rui Machete will meet Wednesday, in Washington, US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss bilateral “matters of common interest’ concerning Portugal and the United States. Rui Machete and John Kerry “will review bilateral and multilateral issues regarding the relationship between Portugal and the United States,” and “issues of […]
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