winter bonzer boards

winter bonzers... now ready for the swells the Atlantic sends towards us!




winter celebration with spoils(wine!) from spanish's surf trips.





6'5 5 finner bonzer, 6'4 3 fin bonzer light veichule for me and eloy's bumblee 3 fin version






Thankx to Malcom, Manila and Helder for the super sleds and for letting us wander around the factory like mad kids on christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bonzer fin check

Nilton our Brazilian colaborator says: " 5 fins? what the fu#/_-)???"
Personal batch of 101 BAMbooooooooo fins for my bonzers...
Thankx Marlin!

up and running!

hard but we made it...we´re at the new office near CASA DA MÚSICA...still missing the usual blueprints of the projects covering the walls but we will get there...
Adriana is back full time from Barcelona!!!!

UPdates, part 2:materials

A walk through Porto with Malcolm Campbell ... old carvings/assemblys in wood, stone and iron from my home town ...after Malcom went to Manila´s to carve some bonzers!!!! they're almost ready!!!!!!



Thank you Malcom!







the office goes concrete searching...we are making stuff with pre cast concrete and some béton thubs there reminds me of Manila's half pipe... Above is a project of Serôdio Furtado associados...we love concrete but we don´t understand why people insist on covering it with drywall and ceiling... that is probably the best phase of the building to us...we have to wait for it to turn into a ruin to see some core architectural values shine again...

more surf on the break....

UPdates, part 1:WINE

A few days off in wine country DOURO...hot hot weather and a familiar landscape....
people drive insane cars there...


an old LANCIA sport car....just aging well like the wine next to it...



Siza's concrete seller

It has been a while since i posted on a regular schedule...work has made free time scarce
for the past 4 months...but i managed a few days off...so here goes some updates about surfing,concrete,wine and BONZERS!

BONZER!BONZER!BONZER!

Malcom Campbell´s ultra bonzer fins sleds via Manila's candy Factory...in SEPTEMBER

Para quem quiser:manilasb@hotmail.com

já tenho as minhas à espera!

Obrigado Manila pelo esforço em ter por cá sempre boas mãos sobre foam!

the job 2

The other partner Raquel (the "R" in A2RV) inspects the whiteness at the dentist practice also near the local breaks...

the job

More on the alba's in the next days , in the meantime architecture...we are almost finishing a small house in the country side...Adriana "von" Massagué inspects the sliding doors inspired in Californian 40's architecture...in Switzerland they´re called skyframes...but the glass technology is proudly done next to my local breaks in Matosinhos, Portugal.

Albatroz

Começaram os testes...( o chato é estar a recuperar a forma depois de quase um mês e meio fora da água)

Alba(s) teaser....

yes... they´re ready and will be in the water tomorrow...
prontas finalmente , e já na água amanhã...

"Vers une Architecure"

Deriva pela w.w.w.eb e aparece esta imagem.
Todos nos sabemos como é que deve ser a nossa " alegre casinha". O Sr. Socrátes não é excepção!
Ela que se multiplique para não esquecermos!
muito pouco surf e arquitectura a mais....

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pictures on the go via mobile phone...just sand and polish and then rivermouth break!!!!!

sweet candy...

já falta pouco...as laminações do Helder e Manila ficarm, como diz o Kikas, TOP!!!!!!
almost there...Helder's and Manila's glassing came out sweet like candy !!!!