Courtesy of Aires Mateus
Architect: Aires Mateus
Location: Aroeira, Portugal
Design Team: Manuel Aires Mateus, Francisco Aires Mateus
Date of construction: 2009-2010
Collaborators: Francisco Caseiro, Catarina Bello,Serena Santini
Client: private
Engineer: AFA consult
Constructor: 2GM
Surface Area: 1500 sqm
Building Area: 300 sqm
Photographer: Courtesy of Aires Mateus
© Nelson Garrido
Architects: Guedes + DeCampos – Francisco Vieira de Campos
Location: Vilarinho dos Freires, Peso da Régua, Portugal
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Nelson Garrido
© Alexandre da Luz Mendes & Ricardo Cabeços
Architects: PLAN Associated Architects
Location: Meia Praia, Lagos, Algarve, Portugal
Project: Yellow Hotel Meia Praia – 5 star hotel
Building Area: 22 298,28 sqm
Design Team: Armando Daniel Dos Reis (Principal Architect), Jenny da Costa Marcos, Ricardo Galego Silva, Quirio Ramalhinho, Liliana de Sousa, Luis Caetano, Hugo Fonseca, Joana Fernandes, Inês Martins, José Martins, Ana Paula Costa, Filipa Monteiro, Matias dos Reis
Client: Iberotel Group
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Alexandre da Luz Mendes, Ricardo Cabeços
© FG + SG Fernando Guerra
Paulo David has been announced as the eleventh recipient of the Alvar Aalto Medal – a prestigious honor awarded to an architect or architectural firm that has provided significant contributions to the field of architecture. “In an era where the profession is obsessed with computer-generated patterns, ‘design’ in many practices has become greatly interested in manipulating forms rather than place making and the making of architecture.” The jury honors David for his ability to create timeless architecture that plays a significant role in his hometown island of Madeira. David’s respect for history, time, place, culture and technology has allowed him to stand out from the current trend of “desperately interesting architecture” and create a new, meaningful layer within the historic volcanic landscapes of Madeira.
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Designed by Like Architects, Frozen Trees is a temporary installation for Christmas lighting in D. Pedro IV square in Lisbon. It builds an illuminated, frozen and fractal Christmas landscape that affects and alters the path of passers by as thirty cylinders – structured, self-sufficient streetlights – are placed throughout the square, drawing a new landscape and context and inviting the visitors to new spatial experiences. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Architects: JLCG Arquitectos / João Luís Carrilho da Graça
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Project Team: Francisco Freire, Paulo Costa, Joanna Malitski, Vera Schmidberger, Paula Miranda, Marcos Roque, Raquel Morais, Luis Cordeiro, Vanessa Pimenta, architect; Nuno Pinto, drawing
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: New construction: 4,500 sqm; Existing intervention: 7,500 sqm; Outer spaces: 30,200 sqm
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Courtesy of EWWUD
Organized by a commission of professors and students from the ULHT’s (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias) School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies (ECATI), European Workshop of Waterfront and Urban Design Workshop 2012 will take place from March 18-31. Held at ISCAD on Lisbon’s Waterfront, where students can work all day, EWWUD’s previous editions gathered about 80 students from several European and North American universities, who worked together for two weeks. More information on the event after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Filipe Magalhaes and Ana Luisa Soares
Filipe Magalhaes and Ana Luisa Soares shared with us their first prize winning proposal in the open ideas competition organized by Origami Competitions. The competition focused on an empty plot in Oporto, Portugal, where they were asked to develop a fresh and contemporary residential proposal that could be spread through the city. ‘Polikatoikea’ does just that in seeking a compromise between a greek rule (polikatoika) and a swedish philosophy (ikea). More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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Architect: EMBAIXADA arquitectura
Location: Praceta Alves Redol, 2300 Tomar, Portugal
Project Team: Albuquerque Goinhas, Augusto Marcelino, Cristina Mendonça, Luis Baptista, Nuno Griff, Pedro Patrício, Sofia Antunes
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 980,34 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of EMBAIXADA arquitectura
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Architects: SAMI-arquitectos – Inês Vieira da Silva, Miguel Vieira
Location: Criação Velha, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal
Property, Owner of the building: Governo Regional dos Açores. Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e do Mar. Direcção Regional do Ambiente
Project Year: 2005
Photographs: FG + SG architectural photography
Courtesy of Cerejeira Fontes Arquitectos
Architects: Cerejeira Fontes Arquitectos
Location: Caldas das Taipas, Guimarães, Portugal
Client: Avepark, Parque de Ciências e Tecnologia
Project Area: 4.484 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of Cerejeira Fontes Arquitectos
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Architect: SAMI-arquitectos – Inês Vieira da Silva, Miguel Vieira
Location : Stª. Luzia, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal
Owner of the building: Governo Regional dos Açores. Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e do Mar. Direcção Regional do Ambiente
Project Team: 2nd Phase Andreia Luís, Rita Maria Pinto
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: FG + SG architectural photography
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Architect: SAMI-arquitectos – Inês Vieira da Silva, Miguel Vieira
Location: São Roque do Pico, Ilha do Pico, Açores, Portugal
Team: João do Vale Martins, Inês Martins, Daniel Mentech
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: FG + SG architectural photography
© Nelson Garrido
Architect: Rui Grazina
Location: Cambeses, Barcelos, Portugal
Area: 300 sqm
Total area: 290 sqm
Gross building area: 3300 sqm total plot area
Completion: 2011
Construction: Engiaço Construções Técnicas, Braga
Photographs: Nelson Garrido
Courtesy of Ventura Trindade Architects
Architect: Ventura Trindade Architects
Location: Mourão, Portugal
Design team: Chiara Ternullo, Nuno Marcos, André Monteiro Rosa, Adelaide Neves, Lourenço van Innis, Filipe Carvalho, Susana Medeiros, Jorge Vicente, Liliana César Rodrigues, Filipe Nunes, Rita Figueiredo, Nélson Rodrigues
Structural Engineering: PRPC – engenheiros, Paulo Cardoso, Pedro Romano com Hugo Veríssimo, Carlos Crespo
Technical Energy: João Mira, Rui Batista
Client: Ceai, Centro de Estudo da Avifauna Iberica, Carla Janeiro, Tiago Ferro
Built area: 545 sqm (gross)
Cost: 675.000 EUROS
Completion: 2009
Maximum height of the building: 6,5 m
Photographs: Courtesy of Ventura Trindade Architects
Courtesy of Active City Transformation
A garden is not just a beautiful place; it is a place for enjoyment, a place of admiration and a place where we come in contact with and learn about nature, especially food. A garden is also a workplace, where one’s hard efforts are rewarded with a bountiful harvest. In recognition of the intense relationship between growing and eating a garden, Taste the Slope, the winning proposal in the International Garden Festival by Active City Transformation, strives to create a more meaningful public connection to the foods we grow and where they are eaten; a local, hands-on garden café of sorts. More images and architects description after the break. read more »
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Architects: Mima Architects
Location: Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 36 sqm
Photographs: Jose Campos
MIMA started with the intention of planning a dwelling that responds directly to the lifestyle of nowadays’ societies. How can architecture adapt to the quick life changes and ambitions of a well informed and increasingly exigent society? MIMA architects researched for years to design a fast produced, flexible, light and cheap yet good quality product, wrapped up with a pleasant clean design.
Courtesy of metroquadrado®
Architects: metroquadrado® architects & designers
Location: Matosinhos, Portugal
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1600 sqm
Photographs: Bernardo Portugal | Susana Saraiva for metroquadrado®
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Architect: NLA-Nuno Leonidas Arquitectos, Lda
Location: Lagos, Portugal
Project Team: Nuno Leonidas, Vasco Leonidas, Duarte Tenera
Client: Ceramitur, SA
Landscape Architecture: Topiaris – Estudos e Projectos de Arquitectura Paisagista, Lda.
Construction: Neocivil – Construcoes do Algarve, S.A.
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
[ January 25, 2012; 18:00 to 20:00. ] Tomorrow, the New York Public Library will be hosting a talk between architect Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig Architects and Town & Country Executive Editor Mark Rozzo that will discuss “the role of place, nature, materials and craft in creating Kundig’s bold and…
We were excited to receive Mackintosh School of Architecture’s 36th addition of MacMag – a student publication that catalogues the work of the student body in a way that is as much about the graphical expression as it is…
“The representation of creative ideas is of primary importance within any design-based discipline, and is particularly relevant in architecture where we often do not get to see the finished results, i.e. the building, until the very end of the…
