The vision of the international consortium led by MVRDV and OODA, in close collaboration with LOLA, Thornton Tomasetti, A400 and Livework studio, was selected as the winning proposal to turn Galp Energia’s former refinery in Matosinhos into an eco-city. Around 25 urbanists, landscape architects and engineers have now the challenge to develop the urban renewal project, turning the former refinery into a green and innovative district making better use of its natural location, preserving part of its industrial heritage, thus creating a bridge between the past and the future.