With Souto Moura and Luís Peixoto, TOM Porto wins the 2025 National Urban Rehabilitation Award

One year after opening its doors in the south wing of São Bento Station, in 2,000 square metres divided between 16 spaces (restaurants, bars, a tower with two branches and an outdoor space), the result of a revitalisation project designed by the renowned architect Eduardo Souto de Moura from Porto, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2011, Time Out Market Porto (TOM Porto) has more reasons to celebrate. And it is not just because of its success, which has been winning over the people of Porto and tourists visiting Porto since April last year. TOM Porto has just been awarded the National Urban Rehabilitation Prize.

"We are very proud and happy to receive this award, it is recognition of the urban impact that Time Out Market Porto has on the city", says Inês Santos Almeida, director of the market.

The architectural project designed by Eduardo Souto Moura and Luís Peixoto won two categories at this year's awards, in their 13th edition: Best Intervention for Commercial Use & Services and Best Intervention in the City of Porto. "The project transformed this space into a gastronomic and cultural hub, preserving the essential elements of the original construction and, at the same time, adapting the interior to accommodate 13 restaurants. In the new public square, a 21.40-metre-high metal structure was erected, inspired by old railway water tanks, which offers a privileged view over the São Bento hill and the Clérigos Tower", describes TOM Porto, explaining that the renovation promoted by the architects sought to "reconcile the functionality required by a contemporary gastronomic market with the safeguarding of historical heritage", in integration with the urban dynamics of Porto.

"The rehabilitation of such an emblematic space is proof that it is possible to preserve heritage and simultaneously create an innovative and relevant project for the community", stresses Inês Santos Almeida, reacting to the National Urban Rehabilitation Award, received this year by TOM Porto and which aims to distinguish urban interventions of greatest value to society in their various dimensions: "the contribution to the qualification of cities and their impact on the community, success measured by market acceptance, social impact and value, the capacity to induce change in the urban fabric."