Tagged Portugal

Portuguese atelier box: arquitectos has recently completed the new face of Koi Restaurant in Ponta Delgada, on the magnificent island of the Azores. Inserted in a hotel unit opened in 2004, the restaurant alre...

Architects Filipa Menino and João Pedro Cavaco have recently refurbished an existing restaurant in Lisbon, Portugal, with the aim to create different atmospheres in the various dining rooms. With a simple and...

Paulo Martins has recently renovated a two-storey house in the old part of Castelo Branco, Portugal, an area which has been in an increasing state of decline in recent years. In response to this trend, this p...

With a 270-degree glass structure, the idea behind The Air cabin by Yakusha Design is to create a feeling of weightlessness and provoke a sense of impossible architecture. With a prominent position overlooking...

Architecture studio OTTOTTO has renovated the interior of a house in Porto, using green metal mesh to encase its originals stone walls. When OTTOTTO removed the plaster from the walls of this house, two imposin...

Architecture studio stu.dere has teamed up with Civiurban to design Lavandaria Morinha, a self service laundry in Vila Meã, a Portuguese town in the municipality of Amarante, Northwest of Porto. The Self Serv...

Portuguese architect Manuel Cachão Tojal has recently merged and overhauled two practically symmetrical apartments located in Lisbon's Picoas neighborhood in a typical building of the early 19th century. The ...

Ajitama Ramen Bistro is a restaurant born out of the dream and ambition of two friends in love with this traditional Japanese dish. After their journey in Japan, a long friendship was reinforced by this passion...

Porto Architects has recently designed a wine concept store in Porto, Portugal, for an online wine specialist company. Located adjacent to the company’s headquarters, facing the street and occupying 90m2, the...

Lisbon-based architecture firm Plano Humano Arquitectos has recently converted an old service edifice in Lisbon, Portugal, into a new housing building that features a dynamic facade with automated wooden shutte...

Pedro Ferreira Architecture Studio has converted an abandoned 19th-century building near Porto, Portugal, used for decades as multi-family residential housing and retail space, into a modern single-family dwell...

Grupo Zegnea has unveiled an array of seven linear houses overlooking the landscape of Guimarães, Portugal. Dubbed The Box XL Houses, the development is arranged in a way to create different relationships with...

Portuguese studio Pablo Pita has recently refurbished Casa Chã in Porto’s historic center. “The building was an expecting plot for years. A decade ago, after some major interventions in the neighborhood, t...

BICA Arquitectos has recently completed Casa Herdade da Aroeira in Almada, Portugal, with the aim to promote maximum integration with the surrounding pine landscape. The desire to establish visual continuity w...

There are territories, buildings, spaces that represent more than just their physical and material dimension. They have the ability to create sensations and appeal to our spirit and our imagination, in a consta...

Portuguese studio Arriba has recently refurbished an 80 square meters apartment on the top floor of an early 20th-century building in the Marvila district of Lisbon by organizing the space through a seamlessly ...

Simulacro, a new installation by Portuguese architect Pedro Henrique Nunes Silva, aims to awaken the senses and imagination of passers-by in the heart of the city of Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, where the Ca...

Portuguese firm Paulo Martins has recently completed the FAMA restaurant, the first gastronomic project of chef Luis Lavrador. Located in a recent building, in a relatively new zone of the city of Aveiro, Portu...

Leopold Banchini Architects has teamed up with Daniel Zamarbide to turn a historical building in Lisbon into a minimalist family home. Situated within a neighborhood that was built around the historic ‘Chapel...

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...