The Port House revealed this Thursday that there were not interested in buying the property called Casa Manoel de Oliveira, adding that “in due time” take appropriate measures “to limit the damage of a project that failed.”
Speaking to Lusa, the presidency of the council source admitted that as of the deadline of a year to sell the equipment by direct agreement (May 7), no one wanted to buy the equipment designed by architect Eduardo Souto de Moura for two decades and completed 12 years ago to be home and museum of Manoel de Oliveira, without the Chamber has signed an agreement with the filmmaker, who died last April 2 to 106 years.
“The house did not have the destination who imagined thought he would have. The public auction and private treaty were an attempt to limit losses in a project that failed. But there was not, so far, stakeholders, “said the municipal source.
The same source noted that “the House in due course, take whatever measures it deems appropriate” for the property, recognizing is not yet defined the future of equipment situated in the area of Foz, in Diogo Botelho Street, which a year ago was brought to auction by the base value of 1.58 million euros.
The auction had no bidding and finished ten minutes later, with municipal services to announce that the regulation of the municipality states in these cases, the equipment can be for one year, sold by direct agreement for an amount up to 5% less than the base price of the auction.
The equipment built by the municipality never been used or target formal agreement between the filmmaker and the local authority. In November 2013, the Serralves Foundation signed an agreement with the family of Manoel de Oliveira to host your file and in 2014, the president of the municipality, Rui Moreira, decided to sell the property da Foz considering not make sense “to keep a house that was never used. “
They were taken to auction the two installments of equipment, aimed at” cultural buildings “with 160 square meters of covered area and 1,800 square meters of” discovery area ” and another for “housing equipment,” composed of “basement, mezzanine, ground floor and two floors” spread over 98 square meters.
This project was launched in 1998, for the 90th time. birthday Manoel de Oliveira, by decision of the Board, then chaired by Fernando Gomes (PS), and the work was completed in 2003 when the municipality was already led by Social Democrat Rui Rio, who defeated his predecessor in municipal elections 2001.
The director of Aniki-Bóbó blamed, in September 2007, the Council of Porto for the failure of creating a house-museum gathering all your movie collection. In a statement, his lawyer recalled that in 2003, when “the building [da Foz] was completed, the House sent officials to carry without notice and without consent of Manoel de Oliveira, the material” from its collection.
The filmmaker recalled that expressed willingness to donate the collection “even in the 1990s,” when the House was presided over by Fernando Gomes, and the council “welcomed with open arms the idea” proposed, “in contrast, construction a building from scratch, designed by a renowned architect. “
The agreement signed in 2013 with Serralves provides install the filmmaker’s estate a project of the architect Siza Vieira, expected to house a permanent exhibition, an amphitheater 50 seats and rooms for file and consulting director of files.
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