Tagged Portugal

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 ...

Portuguese practice Extrastudio has transformed a former winery in a small village south of Lisbon, built by the client’s grandparents at the beginning of the 20th century, into a modern family home with re...

Porto-based firm MiMool Arquitectura & Design de Interiores has recently converted an old theater hall from 1910 in Portugal into a modern bookstore and restaurant. Theatro is born from the dream of a new ...

Built originally for a single family, and abandoned for decades, this old house in Porto has been transformed by local firm Fala Atelier into five small apartments with deep blue doors and furniture, and pos...

Portuguese-based architecture firm estúdio AMATAM has recently completed KRUSH-it, a new boutique fitness club concept set in the Nova Arcada shopping centre in the ancient city of Braga in northwestern Portug...

Designed by Portuguese architect Paulo Martins, this countryside house in Sever do Vouga, Portugal, with an useful floor area of 45 sqm, is the perfect place for a weekend break. With the original structure la...

Portuguese Pedro Ferreira Architecture Studio has recently converted an old typography in Porto, built in the 19th-century and abandoned for decades, in a set of six apartments, maintaining all the structure an...

Porto studio Fala Atelier has refurbished the 60-square-metre Príncipe Real Apartment, located within an old tile-clad block in downtown Lisbon, adding sliding doors that connect each room to a central livi...