'lvaro Siza's restoration of his first building, the Boa Nova Restaurant and Teahouse, five decades after it opened in 1963, is the happy ending to what could have been an architectural tragedy. The casual pavilion, snuggled into a rocky promontory on Portugal's Atlantic coast, in the town of Le'a da Palmeira, 6 miles north of Porto, was left empty by its municipal owners in 2011 and vandalized by thieves, who ripped out copper gutters and wiring for salvage, destroyed the roof and interiors, and left the structure open to the elements.
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