Tagged Portugal

Portuguese architectural firms Andreia Garcia Architectural Affairs and Diogo Aguiar Studio have hidden a bathroom, bed, and kitchen within the walls of this timber-clad holiday home in Guimarães, Portugal. ...

The crisis that hit Portugal ten years ago has produced an incredible density of abandoned spaces. The two main cities, Porto and Lisbon, offered a landscape of ruins and closed buildings that charmed an intern...

Located in a plot of land of irregular geometry and surrounded by constructions of little architectural value in Sever do Vouga, Portugal, this villa designed by Paulo Martins emerges as a consequence of its c...

Nuno Piedade Alexandre has recently completed an Elderly Care Center in Portugal’s Ponte de Sor. The design team was commissioned to design a building in connection with the existing complex, providing the mu...

With the Afife House, Portuguese architect Guilherme Machado Vaz recalls the essential building tradition of the Minho region in Portugal. The rural settlement on which the house is located was established at ...

In the breathtaking setting of a nature reserve in the Algarve, Portugal, Pedro Domingos has recently designed Casa Luum, a holiday home where plastic volumes and minimal style merge in harmony with their surr...

In a naturally fragmented and disconnected context, the Gafarim House by Tiago do Vale Arquitectos offers monolithic, opaque volumes to the street, citing the compact, parallelepipedic masses of northern Portug...

Located in Alentejo, Portugal, Cercal House by Atelier Data is a minimalist holiday home for a family of ten with a strong interaction with its surroundings through an expansive patio and infinity pool. Sitting...

Paris-based artist Tadashi Kawamata has unveiled an immersive installation made up of ocean plastic in the Oval Gallery of Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. Tadashi Kawamata’s solo exhibiti...

On a densely populated hillside in Braga, Portugal, local practice Trama arquitetos has designed a V-shaped house conceived to take advantage of the privileged views over the city. One of the key concerns wa...

Reopened this summer following a dramatic transformation, Douro41 Hotel & Spa is set to be northern Portugal’s go-to minimalist retreat. Seated on the banks of the Douro River and located in close proximi...

Porto-based architecture studio Paulo Moreira has recently refurbished Casa Zaire, a tiny house located at the rear of a modernist building in Rua do Zaire, Porto. The transformation of this tiny hidden house, ...

Portuguese practice DC.AD has recently renovated an 70 sqm apartment in the historical center of Lisbon for short-term rentals. The solutions proposed for the rehabilitation of the apartment stemmed from th...

Lisbon-based studio Aurora Arquitectos has recently converted an old building in Parede, Portugal, into a modern hostel for millennials nomads. The interior of this building was in a state of ruin but, despite ...

Located in the northern Portuguese town of Guarda, this typical townhouse of the first half of the 20th century has been recently refurbished by local studio Filipe Pina Architecture (FPA). The surrounding bui...

Portuguese architecture firm Extrastudio has recently designed House for an Artist, a dual purpose project that combines the aesthetic value of an artist studio with the functionality of a family home. "Our cl...

Portuguese architect Nelson Resende has recently renovated an old house in a central street of Ovar, blending old and new together. In the existing property, the architect found indications of different treatme...

Mão Esquerda (Left Hand) is a new store designed by Gustavo Guimarães for the well-known Portuguese vintage brand which sources high-quality clothes from all over the world. This new project occupies the inti...

Portuguese architecture firm Filipe Saraiva Arquitectos has taken inspiration from the childlike idea of a house's shape to design this family home in the farmlands of Ourém, Portugal. When we ask a child, an...

Portuguese architecture studio M2 Senos has completed a new public toilet for a cemetery in Portugal's Ílhavo municipality. The local practice, which is led by brothers Sofia and Ricardo Senos, was asked by th...

Set on a naturally sloping terrain in Luz, Portugal, Casa Elíptica, is a 450 sqm monumental residence designed by Mário Martins Atelier. Its design evokes the fluidity and lightness of the coastal area while ...