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Visit major works like The Renaissance Porto Lapa Hotel, Rua de Cervantes, central Porto, by VISIOARQ ARQUITECTOS. It is a challenge to design a 4-star elegant and sophisticated urban refuge hotel. The studio break the traditional concept of most hotels in this rating.
Also worth noting is Aethos Ericeira in Ericeira, a modern property design 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: Raul Sousa Cardoso & Graca Vaz. Integrated in a hybrid residential context which crosses urban and rural references, the mortuary house emerges as a filter between them and a universe of contemplation of the distant mountains.
Design: Mario Martins Atelier. Designing a house in Luz-Lagos, in the south of Portugal, in a truly interesting location facing the sea, was defined by a set of guidelines, namely: Respect for and connection with the surrounding area, natural and built upon.
Design: OODA. One of the most demanding tasks in Porto nowadays is the intervention on the major amount of old and historical buildings of Porto´s downtown. This project is a renovation of a 20th century building to convert to a 17 housing unit for students and young people in general.
Design: Vitor Vilhena Architecture. The Block Rehabilitation is located in the historical center of Lagos. It adjoins four streets, with fronts built in all the above the streets, forming a quarter
The existing buildings, were very degraded, without possibility of adaptation. The complete demolition of existing buildings was authorized by Governmental Departments and the building was totally reconstructed.
Design: e|348 arquitectura. It is a building consisting of two distinct adjacent and interrelated volumes, the housing itself – consisting of two stories plus a penthouse – and a garage. Although the volume, apparently, is being treated as a solid monolith, it is fully traversed, with vertical and horizontal voids.
Architects : Estúdio Urbano Arquitectos. The house is located inside the Belas Clube de Campo, a private condominium, where topography allowed to maximize exterior areas and offer privacy to the users. The project extends throughout three floors, with the third floor is entirely occupied by the master bedroom.
In order to promote the quality of Oporto Architecture, Building Pictures, Architect Filipa Figueira and Architect Tiago Vieira, first episode of “Arquitectura à Moda do Porto” project completed
Vaulted Cork Pavilion in Porto, Portugal design by Pedro de Azambuja Varela, Maria João de Oliveira and Emmanuel Novo, built for Amorim Isolamentos Lda., to demonstrate its cork building materials at Concreta 2013
Cultural Center in Castelo Branco, Portugal, design by Josep Lluís Mateo: The Cultural Center, built in phase two, though part of the original project, floats on two piles over the plaza, like a bridge, freeing up at its base a covered ice-skating rink, and giving continuity to this large public space, to the plaza and to the adjacent park.
This bright red building disintegrates the traditional distinction between walls and roofs, using detailing, material and colour as tools to achieve this.
The briefing was to build a three-bedroom house on top of a warehouse built in the 80’s, where part of the roof was made with a flat slab and a small balcony, precisely with that idea of later building the house.
The cultural center of Viana do Castelo by Eduardo Souto de Moura architect is a project inserted into the privileged space of marginal river mouth Lima, around an axis that is claimed as new cultural centrality of Minho.
The Municipal Library Setúbal was designed by the architects Jordana Tomé, Filipe Oliveira and Vitor Quaresma.
Before designing this project we´ve visited and analyzed other similar spaces trying to find some errors that could be corrected.
Mouriz School Center Portugal, a two-storey school center building, including a kindergarten and an elementary school located in Mouriz, Paredes, Northern of Portugal.
Valongo House Portugal: thought as a large volume that cuts and breaks the house proposing spaces, scales, experiences and distinctive moments.
Casa Paramos, Portugal house design by CNLL, architects, located in the parish of Paramos in Espinho, and stands on a long, narrow, irregular-shaped site.