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MVRDV and OODA Reveal Landscape-Led Masterplan for Lisbon’s Marvila Riverfront Regeneration

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:30:00 +0000

MVRDV and OODA have revealed a new masterplan for the regeneration of a vacant 28-hectare site between Marvila and Beato on Lisbon's riverfront. Recently approved by the Lisbon City Council, the project was developed in collaboration with LOLA Landscape Architects and Thornton Tomasetti to transform the area into a landscape-led urban district. Titled The Marvila Masterplan, the proposal establishes a framework for introducing 1,400 homes alongside public facilities, commercial spaces, and services within a fragmented and largely abandoned territory. The project is a private initiative led by the principal landowner and developed in coordination with the Lisbon City Council and Infraestruturas de Portugal.

Housing Affordability Drives New Limits on Short-Term Rentals Across European Cities

Reyyan Dogan — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Across Europe's major tourist cities, housing affordability has increasingly emerged as one of the most pressing urban challenges, prompting governments to reassess the role of short-term rentals within residential neighborhoods. In Barcelona, Mayor Jaume Collboni recently announced plans to phase out tourist short-term rentals entirely by 2028, framing the decision as part of a broader effort to protect residents' right to remain in the city. The announcement coincides with a €64 million fine imposed by the Spanish government on Airbnb for advertising unlicensed properties, placing Spain at the center of an intensifying debate over how tourism-driven accommodation models intersect with housing access, inequality, and urban stability.

Joaquim Moreno Appointed Chief Curator of the 8th Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Antonia Piñeiro — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:30:00 +0000

The 8th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale is scheduled to take place in the autumn of 2028. As in previous editions, the curatorial process begins three years in advance, allowing time to fully develop the project and build on the work of earlier Triennales. The 7th edition, curated by Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino, founders of Territorial Agency, ran from October 2 to December 8, 2025. It was structured around the question How heavy is a city?, proposing an understanding of cities not as fixed objects but as dynamic systems extending beyond urban boundaries into the atmosphere, oceans, and deep time. This approach was explored through three main exhibitions, Fluxes, Spectres, and Lighter, alongside a wider set of initiatives. With the 7th edition concluded, the Triennale has announced Portuguese architect and academic Joaquim Moreno as Chief Curator of the upcoming edition, responsible for developing a new curatorial project for the event.

Oriente Green Campus / LJ-Group Landscape Architecture + Saraiva + Associados + Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:00:00 +0000

As cities grow denser and the boundaries between work, learning, and leisure blur, new urban models must emerge—ones that prioritize people, climate resilience, and balance with nature. Oriente Green Campus, located in Lisbon's eastern business district, embodies this vision. Transforming an abandoned commercial complex into a contemporary green hub, the project unites education, work, and landscape within a vibrant and interconnected ecosystem.

Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025 Examines the Technosphere and Human Impact on Earth

Romullo Baratto — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Thirty trillion tons. This is the estimated mass of all human-made matter on Earth, and the starting point for the 7th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Curated by Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino, founders of Territorial Agency, the event asks a deceptively simple question: How heavy is a city? To answer it requires more than data. It demands a shift in perception: from the scale of the city to the planetary technosphere.

ReSa Architects Wins the Lisbon Architecture Triennale Début Award 2025

Romullo Baratto — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:30:00 +0000

The Lisbon Architecture Triennale announced as the winner of the fifth edition of the Début Award the Indian office ReSa Architects. The office is known for its collective approach to spatial practice, treating architecture as a process of rewriting social and bodily relations. In previous editions, the award recognized the work Vão (Brazil, 2022), Bonell+Dòriga (Spain, 2019), Umwelt (Chile, 2016) and Jimenez Lai, from Bureau Spectacular (USA, 2013).

How Heavy is a City? Exploring the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025

ArchDaily Team — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

How heavy is a city, and what does that weight mean for our collective future? This provocative question guides the 7th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which proposes an inquiry into the transformations of urban life and the material, social, and environmental consequences of inhabiting the planet today. From October 2 to December 8, Lisbon will once again host one of Europe's most significant architectural events.

Reimagining Lisbon’s Azulejos: Regenerative Biomaterial Tiles from the Tagus River

Enrique Tovar — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:30:00 +0000

All materials come from somewhere, embedded in a chain of extraction, supply, production, and disposal that, depending on its scale, leaves more or less significant marks on the environment. In architecture, we usually approach this trajectory through the lens of materials' circularity, considering how they can re-enter production cycles rather than become waste. Yet, broadening our view to unexpected places reveals parallel systems where by-products from one industry become resources for another. This approach has found fertile ground in organic waste transformed into biomaterials, with one of the most recent examples being the work of Fahrenheit Works. Through their installation, "From the Tagus to the Tile", they repurpose oyster shells initially discarded by food systems to create a reinterpretation of Lisbon's iconic tiles.

Nómada Chiado Restaurant / Spacegram

Susanna Moreira — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Nómada Chiado is the latest experimental destination to be inducted into Lisbon’s vibrant food scene. Known for their innovative fusion food, Nómada’s restaurant owners approached Spacegram for a second collaboration with a desire to create an experiential and uniquely immersive space. Their brief involved the transformation of a barren, vault-like interior characterised by domed structures into an enveloping, warm and sophisticated dining atmosphere.

Populous Designs Redevelopment Master Plan for Lisbon’s Estádio da Luz

Reyyan Dogan — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Populous has unveiled the design for a new master plan for the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, in collaboration with Lisbon-based architecture firm Saraiva + Associados. Commissioned by S.L. Benfica, the project aims to upgrade the stadium and introduce new mixed-use and public facilities within the surrounding precinct. Populous describes the project as part of a wider trend in stadium-led urban development, referencing parallels with venues like Wembley Stadium and the Etihad Campus. According to the firm, the design responds to the stadium's existing context while supporting future expansion and new forms of public engagement. Completion is expected in alignment with upcoming international sporting events, including the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

Ofício – Tasco Atípico Restaurant / Spacegram

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

We were commissioned to transform a pre-existent 180sqm restaurant with the typical Chiado vaulted interior in a contemporary ‘Tasca’. Tasca is a traditional portuguese restaurant, that serve home-style food, where you eat at the counter or at tables with no cloth towels. It was at ‘tascas’ that most of the conversations started with a glass of wine and a shared plate of a “petisco”, maybe a salad made of a strange part of the pig or even a simple plate of lupines.

Studentville Housing / ÔCO + andre kong studio

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Andre kong studio has completed 'Studentville', a new thread in Lisbon's architectural fabric, redefining the standards of student accommodation. Located in the lively neighborhood of Palma de Baixo, near Universidade Católica, Studentville sets a new benchmark for design-focused living spaces, thoughtfully crafted to enhance the student experience.

Cura's House / Atelier AAVV

Susanna Moreira — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000

As with other important things in life, it is difficult to set fixed rules for the rehabilitation of a building. And just like with those other important things, we prefer to take the risk of the journey, the mysterious but committed process, impossible yet inevitable, of pursuing the right way. At Casa do Cura, the historical and imagined memories of a corner between the Lapa and Madragoa neighbourhoods blended with the spatial possibilities of a new wooden structure, a conscious trace of the old building's nature, and with the building's narrow space in the city, to uncover a free constellation of spaces, open to new stories.

Sloped to Fit: 14 Homes That Embrace the Hill as a Catalyst for Their Design

Moises Carrasco — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:30:00 +0000

When we think about cities, we often assume the orthogonal grid is the norm: neat, predictable, and rational. However, many urban areas around the world, notably those shaped by hills and uneven terrain, defy this convention. In cities like Lisbon, in Portugal orthogonal grids appear only in flatter zones such as Baixa, while surrounding areas like Alfama adapt organically to topography. These areas create more layered, irregular, and visually dynamic urban forms. Yerevan in Armenia, offers another urban example of this adaptation: the Cascade Complex transforms a steep hill into a terraced public space that connects different city levels while framing panoramic views. For other countries, this response to topography becomes even more critical. Cities like Tegucigalpa in Honduras or Valparaiso in Chile are defined by steep, irregular terrain that requires architects to engage deeply with the land. Designing in these contexts, especially for residential projects, demands technical adaptation and a contextual understanding that allows the slope to become a generative element in the design process.

Energia de Portugal Headquarters / ELEMENTAL

Andreas Luco — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000

This project had to solve a kind of paradox, two forces pulling in opposite directions: on the one hand, it had to comply with a Masterplan that required continuity of the public space from the hills to the river (north-south direction) resulting in a splitting of the building's mass into two linear volumes. On the other hand, the building had to function as one single entity; so the 2 linear volumes had to be connected in the east-west direction threatening the north-south continuity of the public space. So, to respond to both forces simultaneously, we folded the ground of the public space with a slight slope that complied with the hill-river continuity and then connected the two linear volumes under the highest point of the folded ground.

Unveiling the 15 Most Significant Architectural Events of 2025

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000

2025 promises to be a landmark in architecture, heralding a vibrant renaissance of creativity and exploration. As societies confront challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanization, and technological evolution, architecture is both a mirror to these dynamics and a compass pointing toward a sustainable and inclusive future. This year's architectural calendar offers abundant opportunities to celebrate the discipline's transformative power — from boundary-pushing festivals to thought-provoking exhibitions that explore pressing cultural and environmental narratives.

A New Lens on Architecture: Discovering Open House Narratives Across Europe

Camilla Ghisleni — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:30:00 +0000

Throughout 2024, ArchDaily, in collaboration with the Open House Europe architecture event, brought inspiring projects and stories to light. These true architectural gems were unveiled through visits, and their widely shared narratives enriched the architectural discourse. It is an invitation to explore the stories behind buildings that, although part of citizens' daily lives, often go unnoticed amidst the routine automation of everyday life.

Ivens Apartment / X Atelier

Susanna Moreira — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The renovation of this apartment consists in the total usage of this familiar residence volumetry, set on the rooftop. In this sense, overlapping spaces generate informal areas which allow the space to be enjoyed on two levels.