New Portugal architecture projects with Portuguese building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Portugal building news from across this South West European country, featuring the most interesting contemporary properties.
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.
Matosinhos Market Portugal, Quadra, Architect, Arquitetura Portuguesa, Design Matosinhos Market : Quadra Project Portuguese Retail Building design by Arquitectos Anónimos, Portugal 30 Sep 2011 Architects: Arquitectos Anónimos Quadra Project – Center for Innovation and Creativity: rehabilitation of Matosinhos market Matosinhos Market Building Project Description The project aims the rehabilitation of the Matosinhos Market, a building … Read more
Fraunhofer Portugal is a non-profit private research association and is part of the German Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the largest organization for applied research in Europe
Young Architect award at the 2011 LEAF Awards was won by Living Foz, Porto, Portugal by dEMM arquitectura – Paulo Fernandes Silva. Delightful residential building, such a simple concept expressed through a bold sculptural treatment of the facade
The house is located in a “typical” peripheric urbanization of Pousos, a parish of the municipality of Leiria. Situated east of the city and at high ground, it works as a sort of panoramic belvedere over Leiria
The house in Melides, on the southern Alentejo Coast, by Pedro Reis, represents the desire for a holiday house as a getaway from the bustle of a big city.
Built to solve the lack of working conditions and space for the development of educational activity of the newly created FAUP and limited by the constraints of a very modest budget, the Carlos Ramos Pavilion would become a reference in Alvaro Siza work
The cultural meeting point joining the house owners and the architects was based on their common interest: an undoubtedly contemporary architecture, but one whose nature and final expression would also be the outcome of a research of the paradigms figuring in the traditional architecture of the region, the Alentejo
Gouveia, door for entry to the Serra da Estrela, is going to be served by new Law Courts. The land set aside for construction is located between the public gardens, at the end of the Rampa do Monte do Calvário, replacing an existing building
The first of two twin office towers, with 22.000m2 each, crowning the main Gaia Nova round-about, with a breathtaking view over Oporto’s city centre on the banks of the Douro river, right down to the river mouth and the Atlantic Ocean
House in Aveiro, home in Canal Botirões, Portugal – design by RVDM Arquitectos – Portuguese house, residential building: Portugal property, Aveiro home
Situated closely to the entry of new tolls at Guimarães – South motorway A11, the new centre of operations of Arriva-Portugal, a public transport company with a large deployment in the Minho region.
Two overlapping volumes contain separate programs. The upper one contains the housing program, organized spaces around the central courtyard. This wide body, is drilled vertically, and it lands on the ground supported by another volume that houses the pool bottom.
The Vodafone building has a total of 7472 square meters of construction (3560 above and 3912 under the ground) on a site area of 1971 square meters
The location of the Congress Centre, on a spacious and open site, allows perception of the complex from a distance. Thus, the architecture favours, on the one hand, a relationship of proximity between the passer-by/user and the building and, on the other, the volumetric presence on a grand scale.
The Estoril Exhibition and Congress Centre is the 1998 international competition-winning project for DTCE, promoted in order to create an additional focus of economic growth and tourist development in the Estoril region
“a tomb is a prison, but also a “monumentum”; that is, an object which keeps the “memory” or the recollection of an absent person alive… and only monuments are architecture…
The house would have to be spread over three floors in order to adjust to about 10 meters in height difference between the extremes of the longitudinal field.
The presented project – Caetano & Assis House – was originated from the transformation of a place that it maintains a rural identity that derives from the surrounding environment
