House in Bonfim, Porto, Portugal
Design: AZO. Sequeira Arquitectos Associados Lda. The Bonfim House is intended for a young family living in the city. This family desired a functional home with large, cleared areas with 4 floors and about 450sqm.
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Major works to visit include the The Renaissance Porto Lapa Hotel, Rua de Cervantes, central Porto, by VISIOARQ ARQUITECTOS. The proposed challenge of designing a 4-star elegant and sophisticated urban refuge hotel, breaking the traditional concept of most hotels in this rating, was met with a strong investment in exterior design.
Also worth noting is Aethos Ericeira in Ericeira designed by Pedra Silva Arquitectos, and Concrete 11, Lisbon, by Cage Atelier.
Some delightful properties include Foz Apartment Renovation, Foz do Douro, Porto, by dEMM arquitectura, and finally Nova Rio Housing, Porto, design by António Paulo Marques.
Design: AZO. Sequeira Arquitectos Associados Lda. The Bonfim House is intended for a young family living in the city. This family desired a functional home with large, cleared areas with 4 floors and about 450sqm.
Design: A2OFFICE. This Portuguese residential project involved the rehabilitation of a house located in the center of Porto, with basement, two floors, attic and a small patio.
Design: Contaminar Arquitectos. From the slope it is possible to contemplate the Castelo de Bode dam and all the magnificent surrounding landscape. Avast landscape marked by the tones of earth and pinewood.
Design: Arouca municipality and engineer company Trimetrica. Embracing the Paiva river this is a new walking path with breathtaking natural beauty, picturesque landscapes, waterfalls and a variety of fauna and flora species.
Design: Saperlipopette les Architectes. Behind the project “casa no muro” there is the promise of a father to his children, to build them a tree house. But the tree overhanging the enclosure wall was on the neighbors land
Design: Nuno Montenegro, architect. The portico structure arises from the combination of the two programmatic requirements. The need to create a corporate iconic image, and the inclusion of a set of amphitheatres.
Design: MIMA Lab. MIMA Light is the ultimate achievement in modular construction, combining an outstanding lightness with an iconic and minimal image. This home seems to levitate above the ground due to the lining of the base with mirrors
Design: blaanc, architects. Implanted on a large agricultural estate, the house is built in the middle of the property’s vineyard on an almost flat terrain adjacent to a cork oak forest. The one storey building slips easily into the calm and serenity of the surroundings.
Integrated on a housing facility from the mid 90’s, the apartment design by Merooficina Architects is a result of the rampant construction that characterizes the neighborhood growing where it’s located
Design: Camarim Arquitectos. Gateira is a hamlet placed on a beautiful hill planted with vineyards, pines and olive trees with splendid views over the southern tip of Serra da Estrela, the highest point in mainland Portugal.
Design: Bumjin Kim & Minyoung Kim. Scaffolding has been used for a very long time, across the globe. Essentially, it is a temporary structure that supports people or materials during the construction process: it can provide a more flexible space.
Design: Atelier in.vitro. Casa da Boavista, built over four floors on a long, narrow lot with back garden, typical of the early XX century bourgeois Porto. It was in good state of conservation and had ornamental features that were important to preserve.
Design: FAT – Future Architecture Thinking. The Sobreiras – Alentejo Country Hotel is located on a property of about 25 ha in the Serra de Grândola, 200 m above sea level, punctuated by cork oak trees holm oaks, olive trees and varied endogenous vegetation.
Design: João Mendes Ribeiro. The Fonte Boa House is a single family house designed in a rural estate in Fartosa, Fonte Boa, in the centre of Portugal.
Architects: Sofia Parente e André Delgado. The Nogueiras House occupies an existing stone construction in direct relation with the front patio and with views to the sea. Formerly used as a barn, it has now been converted into a house.
Design: Beomki Lee. Unlike the existing conventional bathhouse, this architecture fosters people to touch and experience the existing outstanding natural beauty in a direct way, with exposed every bath space towards lake Lagoa Comprida.
Design: José Neves architect: Cinema Ideal was the first cinema in Portugal. Located in the heart of Lisbon, between Loreto and Horta Seca streets, it occupies the ground floor of two buildings built in two different epochs – 19th and 20th centuries
Design: SAOTA. The brief for Casa Colina was to maximise on the views of the Madeira coastline framing the sweeping slopes overlooking the sea.