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post updated 8 May 2025

Portugal Architecture Design – chronological list

26 April 2024
Varandas de Salgueiros in Porto
Architects: Floret Arquitectura

photo : Ivo Tavares Studio
The building is located in the city of Porto, Portugal, in a residential area near the city center. The construction stands out for its contemporary forms, whose distinctive composition results from the morphology of the plot, allowing the exploration of solid and void forms that create divisions between balconies.

14 April 2024
Pediatric Ward of Hospital São João, R.Dr.Sousa Rosa 351, Foz do Douro, Porto
Architects: ARG Studio

photo : Ivo Tavares Studio
The new Pediatric Ward of Hospital São João in Porto, after years of expectation and media attention, has become the benchmark for the renovation and innovation of the Portuguese Healthcare System. The challenge was to establish a bond between the architectural language of the Leisure Area and the illustrated narrative throughout the building corridors.

8 March 2024
351 Foz Apartments in Porto, R.Dr.Sousa Rosa 351, Foz do Douro, Porto
Architects: dEMM arquitectura

photo : FG+SG
351 Foz Apartments in Porto property
351 Foz Housing is a residential building with 6 apartments spread over 5 floors. Located in Porto at Foz do Douro, it has East/West orientation and is inserted in an urban area in consolidation next to the Atlantic Ocean.

26 February 2024
IMLA House, Lavra, Porto
Architects: Luppa Architects
IMLA House, Porto

17 February 2024
Expansion of Museu Serralves
Design: Álvaro Siza architect

photo Courtesy of Museu Serralves and Álvaro Siza
Museu Serralves expansion by Álvaro Siza
“Improbable Anagrams” will be the first exhibition of the Serralves Permanent Collection presented in the Álvaro Siza Wing, dedicated to hosting all future exhibitions on the collection “C.A.S.A” will showcase works from the Álvaro Siza archives, exploring the ‘House’, the genesis of all architecture.

2 January 2024

Architecture: Raulino Silva
Leça do Balio II House, Matosinhos

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Porto Architecture News 2023 – 2024

New Portuguese Buildings, chronological:

Casa De Bouro, Terras De Bouro, North Portugal

Casa de Lavra, Porto, Portugal

Casa Kala, Porto Hotel

1 September 2023
The Renaissance Porto Lapa Hotel, Rua de Cervantes, central Porto
Architects: VISIOARQ ARQUITECTOS

photo : Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Renaissance Porto Lapa Hotel

30 May 2023
patios of petals, Gondomar, Porto, northern Portugal
Architects: Sandra Micaela Casinha Atelier

photo : Ivo Tavares Studio
Casa Pátios de Pétalas, Gondomar, Porto

19 Mar 2023

Architects: dEMM arquitectura

photo : José Campos Photography
Foz Apartment Renovation in Porto

12 Jan 2023
Forte House, Santo Tirso, Oporto
Architects: pema studio
Forte House, Santo Tirso, Porto

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Porto Building News

Porto Architectural News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

10 Oct 2022
Nova Rio Housing, Porto, northern Portugal
Architects: António Paulo Marques

photo : Ivo Tavares Studio
Nova Rio Housing, Porto

28 Sep 2022
Ílhavo House, Rua das Cancelas, Ílhavo, northern Portugal
Architects: M2.senos_arquitetos
Ílhavo House, Porto

28 Aug 2022
São Lázaro Apartments, Porto, northern Portugal
Architects: Floret Arquitectura

photo : Ivo Tavares Studio
São Lázaro Apartments, Porto

20 Jul 2022
Paradinha Cabins, Porto, northern Portugal
Architects: SUMMARY

photo © Fernando Guerra_FG+SG
Paradinha Cabins, Arouca

6 Jul 2022
MG Coudelaria, Minho Region, Northern Portugal
Architecture: Visioarq

photo : Maria João Gala
MG Coudelaria, Minho, North Portugal

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9 Jan 2019
Loop, Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto
Architects: FAHR0213

photography : João Morgado
Loop in Porto
For the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Science and Technology Park of the University of Porto, (UPTEC), FAHR was challenged to develop a structure for the garden in front of the central building that symbolized this mark in time and made it last in the future as a symbol of the park.

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20 Nov 2018
Casa Moreira
Architects: César Machado Moreira architect

photography : José Campos
Casa Moreira
This home sits on a site facing a narrow street of small houses. The property plan is 12x12m, with the building volume defined by regulations.

10 May 2018
Rua Amial Development in Paranhos
Design: Bogle Architects & Grant Associates

image courtesy of architects
Rua Amial Development in Paranhos, Porto
Mixed-use urban regeneration scheme awarded a Commendation at the 2018 MIPIM/The Architectural Review: Future Projects Awards.

29 Mar 2018
Project Tawny, Rua do Amial, Paranhos
Architect: Bogle Architects

picture courtesy of architects
Project Tawny in Porto
Round Hill Capital Awarded a Commendation at the 2018 MIPIM/The Architectural Review: Future Projects Awards for Mixed-use Urban Regeneration Project in Porto, Portugal designed by Bogle Architects

21 Mar 2018
Serralves House
Architect: João Vieira Campos

photo © Nelson Garrido
Serralves House

26 Feb 2018
Garden Pavilion in Museu de Serralves, Jardins da Fundação de Serralves, Porto
Architects: Diogo Aguiar Studio

photo © Fernando Guerra
Garden Pavilion in Museu de Serralves in Porto
By the occasion of the exhibition Live Uncertainty: An Exhibition after the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, Diogo Aguiar Studio was selected to design one of the ephemeral pavilions to host the selected films to be displayed in the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art gardens.

24 Jan 2018
Renovation Apartment, Porto
Design: Cubículo Arquitectos

photo : Jose Campos Architectural Photographer
Renovation Apartment in Porto
An apartment located on the first floor of a multi-family housing block representative of the modernist architecture of the 50’s in the city of Porto. Exaggeratedly subdivided, disproportionately dimensioned, and functionally inadequate for nowadays, this space needed an organizational readjustment.

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15 Oct 2017
Serralves Park Temporary Pavilion
Architects: Fahr 021.3

photography : José Campos
Serralves Park Temporary Pavilion in Porto
The pavilion exhibits a video art piece from the 32ª São Paulo Art Biennale by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca ; an architectural object that explores the ambiguity between the presented work and its context.

12 Jul 2017
VN Garden Pavilion
Architect: José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira Arquitecto

photography : Patrick Monteiro e José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira
VN Garden Pavilion in Porto
The architects received an urgent call from a client asking them to transform a modest wooden frame shelter (covered with tile) into a renovated and bigger garden pavilion. It was a basic construction in a eclectic yard landscape serving a luxury villa.