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Polana Bar, Polana Hotel Maputo, Mozambique Amancio d’Alpoim Miranda (Pancho) GUEDES: Architect

Date: 1955 Type: Hotel Status: Extant Street: Av. Julius Nyerere   Click to view large map Coordinates: 25°58'09.49" S 32°35'50.60" E Alt: 33m

Guedes calls the style of this building STILOGUEDES which translated means 'GuedesStyle' but loses something in the translation. [An insert in the catalogue of the exhibition "Pancho Guedes- a aventura da arquitectura, o desafio ao formalismo (the adventure of architecture, the challenge to formalism)" held in the Portuguese consulate in Maputo in March 2010]