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Garage Encounters / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000

One of the many misconceptions that has preoccupied the world of architecture in recent decades is that architecture's noble existence occurs only in the built world.

Phare Ylliam Lighthouse / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Few programmes offer such strong and evocative poetic substance as a lighthouse. The lighthouse is a place and an object that inspires reverie, the imagination of distant places, but also of return, of a landmark, a symbol of safety after stormy voyages. The lighthouse is the very embodiment of what it carries, of why it exists: to carry and bring light.

Séraphin of Urtsadzor Shelter / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide) + NPATAK

Valeria Silva — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000

During the summer of 2024, an interesting experience was carried out in the Armenian Caucasus mountains. A group of people somewhere in a very rocky and wild environment gathered to construct an undefined and seemingly useless multi-species artifact. They woke up at 5.30 am every morning, worked under an intense heating sun on an improvised construction site, prepared meals together three times a day, played football in the evening, and sometimes danced at night. There were some wild dogs always around, horses as well, a couple of vultures close to where they were building, invisible and dangerous snakes, and wonderful mantises. They seemed happy and tired. From afar, the experience felt absurd and beautiful at the same time.

Therese Livable Sculpture / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Clara Ott — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0000

This is a story that began in the Swiss mountains as an echo of the writings of the Swiss novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. This plot gave birth to Antoine, a peculiar architectural creature that welcomes many nomadic inhabitants and nature enthusiasts since 2014, offering them shelter inside the figure of the boulder. The story continues, becoming a short series with the appearance of a new member, Thérése, built in 2022.

Maison Molaire / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000

The exploration of domestic spaces goes on, working on creative variations of supports and stages for everyday life. If there is anything like a standard family, statistically it would be this one: cohabitants of a given space, not necessarily coming from the same parenthood. They have different rhythms and different lives. They meet and spend time together at home, they navigate between different homes.

Sawerdō Coffee & Bakery / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Two years of covid have pushed everyone to a certain level of distrust. We started the project of the Sawerdo with the fear that putting people around a table was an endangered gathering format. The risk was taken, a sort of hopeful leap of faith by the founders, believing that the jumping microbes of a too-close neighbor would never be an obstacle to being together.

Selenite Dreams Temporary Exhibition / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Valeria Silva — Wed, 31 May 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Plaster, the extracted form of gypsum, essentially composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, appears as a good figuration of the BUREAU’s general attitude towards architecture. If we were to define ourselves as minor architects, following Jill Stoner’s book «Towards a minor architecture», working with what is considered a minor material seems quite d'à-propos. It is one that has been utilized to prefigure and anticipate masterpieces in the numerous “galéries des plâtres” around the world, fabricating figurative positive molds of definite sculptures, forever “graved in stone”. The plaster seems more malleable, elastic, and fragile.

Mr. Barrett's Garden / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 02:00:00 +0000

There is a vast private and beautiful site, a plot on the Leman Lake, looking towards the majestic Alps. The fictional character that we have called to invest our site is Mr. Barrett, the particular caretaker of the 1963 Joseph Losey’s film The Servant. The primary purpose of this private commission was to design a garden that, during its realization, started to dialogue with a second intervention on the same plot, the renovation of a chalet, Mr. Barrett’s house. The garden presents some sort of spatial contrast with the house; as much as the interior of the chalet is vertical, “sectional” and quite modest in its dimensions, the garden offers an experience of diverse open horizontal areas delicately enclosed by plants.

Bureau's Office / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:00:00 +0000

In the past years, we have learned about mobility. Commuting and professional nomadism. We have been around, working everywhere, hurting our backs in bad chairs, homes, cafés, construction sites, all sorts of transports. Micro-scale travelling in a reduced European perimeter, still quite intensively on the move. It does feel good to find, at last, a generous resting base camp in the heart of our beautiful Lisbon. A space from the past that allows us to see further in the future, to project ourselves into something else, something we are not yet and that we might become. A good space is a space where one can project oneself, individually and collectively.

Floating Realities Center / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:00:00 +0000

A project about floating, mentally and bodily experiencing a certain state of suspension, in a rather safe space, where the outside is imaginary, evoked, lived uniquely through imagery. From a very interiorized experience, one is thrown outside, traveling in and out.

X is Not a Small Country Exhibition / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Andreas Luco — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0000

The exhibition design follows these lines of thought: Fieldwork: the resurrection of Henrique Galvão’s 1934 map, a complex referential transnational framework. Translation: the very actual and misused topic of borders, peripheries, nations dictating conventions on one side of a line against what might happen on the other. Lines: suggested by a deformed, half invisible grid offering potential narratives of referential diversity, blurring north-south orientations. Geography: an insinuated three-dimensional space grid eludes any clear belonging. Choice: “if I had to choose between The Doors and Dostoyevsky, then – of course – I’d choose Dostoyevsky. But do I have to choose?” (Susan Sontag in Jonathan Cott, The Complete Rolling Stone Interview, Yale University Press, 2013).

Casa do Monte / Leopold Banchini Architects + BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Andreas Luco — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Established in 1147 by Augustinians and rebuilt after the earthquake of 1755, the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte dominates the city of Lisbon. The popular neighbourhood built around the historical hermitage holds on to the steep hillside. Accessible via narrow stairs only, many houses have been abandoned over the years.

MARIA Apartment / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The architectural classification that is applied to how an apartment plan is distributed, how its parts are arranged is frequently referred to as housing typology: it defines and catalogs common characteristics or types. It is quite well known the concept in architecture, and particularly in spaces dedicated to inhabitation: apartments, houses.

7000 Oaks Park at CEVA Station / Leopold Banchini Architects + BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +0000

Joseph Beuys’ 7000 oaks for the 1982 Documenta in Kassel constituted a turn in the art world. By a quite simple conceptual gesture, the artist managed to use the power of art discourse and action to activate an environmental concern that has grown ever since. This happened in the1980s, the same decade which saw a very substantial acceleration of violence towards all living beings on earth. Ever since, we have been trying to develop our consciousness to counter this movement, with relatively poor success.

BBB Bar / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

One of the typical challenges of any architectural project is dealing with a constraining site. When confronted to a particular space, difficult to deal with, one has to ring not one but a few bells to make it happen. Some of these are rational and need problem-solving operational thinking, but others need atmospheric approaches, bringing the imagination and the senses into the game in order to transform the beast into the beauty.

Mr. Barrett’s House / BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Internal architecture could name the process through which Mr. Barrett’s House has gone through. An interesting idea, directly borrowed from the medical world, would be to call ourselves internists in this sort of surgical intervention. Everything has been developed from the inside. There is a clear logic to do so when architecture has to face spaces of intimacy, places where the privacy and the interaction and complexity of human relations appear at its least public environment. It is thus about interiority. And the project literally took these criteria as a starting point to develop its conception and construction.

Dodged House / Leopold Banchini Architects + BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 02:00:00 +0000

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 international community looking for a southern romanticism. Since then the two cities have acted and reacted to renew their historical centers and a good quantity of these abandoned houses have been renovated with a general undeniable quality, probably due to the sensitive and cultivated approach of Portuguese architects in general.