Architizer Award winner in the Architecture + Photography category 2016
Arcaid Images “Architectural Photographer of the Year 2015”
Plataforma Arquitetura Photography Prize “Obra del Año 2015 – Project of the year 2015”
Destaques
LOOP DESIGN AWARDS Fernando Guerra
BOOK EDITION three days in Biarritz
FG EDITION Bags & Camera straps
FG+SG BOOK EDITIONS Livros de imagem
FINE ART PRINTS Limited ditions
FERNANDO GUERRA MoMa New York
Notícias
Galaxy Soho | Beijing, China
Galaxy Soho by Zaha Hadid architects
Shoot by Fernando Guerra in Beijing last December
“Galaxy Soho constitutes a new office, retail and entertainment complex for the heart of this great Chinese city – matching its grand scale. The complex comprises five continuous flowing volumes, set apart yet fused or linked by a sequence of stretched bridges. Each volume adapts outwards, generating a panoramic architecture devoid of corners or abrupt transitions.
Galaxy Soho reinvents the great interior courts of Chinese antiquity to create an internal world of continuous open spaces. Here, architecture no longer incorporates rigid blocks, but instead comprises volumes which coalesce to achieve continuous mutual adaptation and fluid movement between buildings. Shifting plateaus impact upon each other to generate a deep sense of immersion and envelopment, allowing visitors to discover intimate spaces as they move deeper in the building.
The structure’s three lower levels contain retail and entertainment facilities, those above provide works spaces for innovative businesses of many kinds, while top levels are dedicated to bars, restaurants and cafes – many with views along the city’s great avenues”.
Zaha Hadid Architects
THE MISSING DIMENSION: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
A dimensão que faltava… FG+SG Fotografia aéreaDepois de mais de um ano a desenvolver e adaptar equipamento que nos permitisse explorar a dimensão que nos faltava, chegou o momento de anunciar o novo serviço da FG+SG de recolha de imagens aéreas. Uma forma complementar de ver a arquitetura na paisagem, sem os custos associados de um avião ou helicóptero.Neste último ano modificámos várias máquinas fotográficas até encontrar a ideal para cada tipo de vôo, tendo experimentado paralelamante várias formas de as controlar remotamente. Redesenhámos o nosso drone e fabricámos novas peças. Experimentámos diversos motores e hélices até conseguir uma máquina que, por ser em fibra de carbono, é leve, robusta e com autonomia suficiente para nos garantir as condições de vôo ideais de forma a obter as imagens que o nosso cliente pretende.As fotografias são da autoria de Fernando Guerra que com a colaboração do nosso “piloto”, o mais recente membro da nossa equipa, garantem o enquadramento e a qualidade desejáveis. Esta nova opção, ao possibilitar o registo de imagens do projecto visto do ar, seja ele um edifício, uma parte de cidade ou um campo de golf, permite complementar uma sessão tradicional com uma nova dimensão. Informações sobre este novo serviço no ultimasreportagens.com a biblioteca portuguesa de projetos de arquitetura. Agora com mais uma dimensão. |
The missing dimension… FG+SG Aerial photographyAfter more than a year of developing and adapting equipment that would allow us to explore the missing dimension, it is time to announce FG+SG’s new service of collecting aerial images, providing a complementary form for viewing architecture against the landscape without the associated costs of an aeroplane or helicopter.This past year we modified several cameras until we found the ideal match for every type of flying, having experimented in parallel various ways to control them remotely. We redesigned our drone and manufactured new parts. We experimented with different motors and propellers until we had a machine made of carbon fiber that is lightweight, robust and autonomous enough to guarantee optimal flying conditions in order to obtain the images that our clients want.The photographs are by Fernando Guerra, who, together with the help of our “pilot”, our newest team member, guarantees the desired framing and quality. In allowing project images to be taken from the air, be it of a building, part of a cityscape, or a golf course, this new option complements the traditional photo shoot with a new dimension. Information about this new service can be found at ultimasreportagens.com, the portuguese library for architectural projects. Now with another dimension. |
30.11.2012 | Artkey Gallery, 798 Art District
Curated by Emanuel Barbosa
Uma parcería entre a revista CASA INTERNATIONAL e a CASARTE
Com a presença do Embaixador de Portugal na China, Tadeu Soares
Architectural Photography Awards 2012
Arcaid Images is the world’s premier source of high quality architectural imagery.
World Architecture Festival is the world’s largest festival and live awards competition dedicated to celebrating, and sharing architectural excellence from across the globe. Now in its fifth year, the World Architecture Festival has welcomed over 8000 attendees to date. WAF 2012 is the most packed World Architecture Festival date with more seminars, keynotes, crit presentations, learning and networking opportunities than ever before.
The Architectural Review is the only complete global architecture magazine, read and enjoyed in over 130 countries. World renowned for its truly global and inspirational perspective, it is the one magazine in which architects aspire to have their work published.
Big Shot 3: Fernando Guerra, Architectural Photographer
13th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura
Out and about in Venice
Fernando Guerra
Being invited to be part of an event such as this in Venice on the recent history of a country such as Israel – a country I had never visited before nor had any connection to- was a very special opportunity. Not only because it was a unique trip that took me across the whole country, but also because it took me away from the routine of my daily reports, allowing me to participate on a different level as a artist invited to the 13th edition of the Venice Biennial in the Israeli pavilion called “Aircraft Carrier”. The collected works on display confront the dramatic changes in Israeli architecture since 1973, and the American influences that made them possible.
Venice, a city as beautiful as it is impractical, expensive and full of tourists, still preserves its natural charm, and this edition of the biennial has many reasons to make it worth a visit. The theme for this year’s Biennale, chosen by its British director David Chipperfield, is ‘Common Ground’. It’s a choice that hints at architecture’s need to refocus on issues like engagement and communication, and to establish shared values.
In the midst of so many exhibitions, book launches and awards ceremonies, personally the most important was the emphasis throughout the event on architectural photography. Not just as a mere illustrator of structures, but as its centerpiece. Several exhibits confirm the photographic image as the communicator par excellence of architecture. Only a visit to the actual site can beat it. Never before has so much been photographed, nor architecture so much discussed, and photography is increasingly fulfilling its relevant role in this communication process. This is important for all those whose make their living from it, such as Iwan Ban, Leonardo Finotti, and Cristobal Palma whom I had the opportunity to meet once again in Venice. Fellow architectural photographers whom I very much respect. We all photograph in different, often competing registers, but above all, we are friends, who reconnect through the structures photographed on the same day, or at events like this.
Having been appointed Canon Explorer, assuming the role of ambassador for Canon Europe in terms of architectural photography, as well as all the collaborations launched in recent months with architectural offices in Brazil, Italy, Spain, France and China, have served to give us strength and contributed to counteracting the prevailing crisis in Portugal, and especially the dismay that it causes.
I feel we are just starting our engines and that everything still remains to be done. And I write “we” because FG+SG are actually 5 people, and the work we do today is more demanding than ever and requires a totally committed team to communicate the best work in Portugal and worldwide every day of the week. Never have we had so much work or high levels of responsibility. Nor have I had as much pleasure in making photography my way of life as today.
Here’s to the next events, but above all here’s to reconnecting with friends, may there be time for that. Here’s to an autumn full of beautiful images.
13th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura
|
Extreme Houses
O canal norte americano HGTV a esta a realizar o programa Extreme Houses, sobre casas em Portugal fotografadas por Fernando Guerra. Álvaro Leite Siza, Aires Mateus, Marco Guarda e Nélson Resende são alguns dos arquitectos em destaque neste episódio filmado em Portugal nas últimas semanas.
Últimas reportagens
recent work by Fernando Guerra
A mais completa biblioteca online de imagens da arquitectura contemporânea portuguesa.
Últimos projectos nacionais.
Obras de referência internacionais.
Artigos especiais.
Publicações.
Visite-nos regularmente para novas imagens.
Últimas Collins dictionary
1. last 2. latest, most recent; Latest is the superlative of late. adj You use latest to describe something that is the most recent thing of its kind. 3 adj You can use latest to describe something that is very new and modern and is better than older things of a similar kind.