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Design: Souto Moura Arquitectos. Award for the restoration of the Convento das Bernardas building, based on the construction of a resort with 78 residences. The architecture design has two types of intervention: new construction work and the recovery of the existing building
Architects: Corpo Atelier. This house is largely a horizontal volume, containing a swimming pool, emerging from the walls to offer a possibility of volunteered exposure, for a brief moment, before returning to the house.
From the need to serve multiple functions, the Pastoral Center of Moscavide building design by Plano Humano Arquitectos is composed by a set of facilities that include catechesis rooms, funeral chapels, and the parish residence, and these needs.
Architects: A2OFFICE. This project is about the rehabilitation of a building with original construction dated from the end of the 19th century, with 4 floors and inserted in a plot with 176.80sqm
Architects: Ricardo Camacho, Gilda Camacho. The EN125A22 house addresses the relationship between the architectural object and four types of mobility. Located above the intersection of the main roads of the Algarve, the house operates as a mechanism able to recognize, use and represent different types of mobility.
Architects: Pedra Liquida. Among a set of dwelling buildings this one stood out by the austerity of its facade and the large and free open interior, characteristics of an old iron warehouse
Architect: FAHR 021.3. The celebratory piece Eclipse marks the 20th anniversary of the classification of the historic centre of Porto as Unesco World Heritage site. A temporary installation, Eclipse is a project by architecture studio FAHR 021.3.
Design: Atelier in.vitro. The objective was to rehabilitate a set of 3 existing apartments, each one with an area of about 200 sqm, maintaining its housing function with large typologies and allowing simultaneously its use as touristic units.
With a total of 3 floors, the housing was thought of form to adapt it the declivity of the land, allowing a good functioning and joint of all spaces, preventing a construction with too much impact, design by AZO. Sequeira Arquitectos
AZO. Sequeira Arquitectos designed this residence which appears parallel to the existing street, openup the Northeast and close to the street in order to ensure privacy to the common areas of the house
Architect: João Mendes Ribeiro. Claus Porto, a Portuguese 130 years old scents brand, has opened it’s first flagship store in Lisbon downtown. A heritage built not just by their impressive material assets, but also by their intangible patrimony, linked to the objects’ symbolic quality and value.
A 113 sqm vertical garden in new restaurant/gallery/concert venue next to the river in Belem, Lisbon. It wraps around the kitchen inserted into this renovated 1940s pavilion. Several windows cuts through the plant surface.
Design: Contaminar Arquitectos. The shape of the house stretches on the ground, unfolding from a wall that supports three volumes. Each one has a different scale, offering a different experience, resulting in a dynamic and playful composition.
Architects: Miguel Marcelino. The school building setting allows a close relationship with nature, located in the countryside, the new primary school + kindergarten is surrounded by beautiful adult trees.
Design: A2OFFICE, architects. This architecture project is a rehabilitation of a 19th Century building with an unusual triangle-shaped planimetry. Despite an area of only 52sqm four lofts have been formed.
Lisbon Architecture Triennale Open Call for Chief Curator for 2019 Lisbon Architecture Triennale ; current event on until 11 Dec 2016, curated by André Tavares & Diogo Seixas Lopes, ‘How to speak today about the form in architecture?’
Casa da Arquitectura-Centro Português de Arquitectura will open in June 2017, in Matosinhos. The announcement came at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia