Tagged Portugal

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...

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...