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Boavista Housing / A43 Lda

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:24 +0000

There is a particular quality to the light that arrives from the Atlantic at this edge of Porto: unhurried, generous, carrying the weight of open water. Boavista Housing was designed to receive it.

Atelier Pomo / fala

Valeria Silva — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:39:00 +0000

The atelier occupies an existing space from another time and a different, anonymous, and slightly temporary economy of space. Rather than erasing this condition, the project works from it. A landscape architecture studio moves in, bringing its own set of concerns. The intervention is light and precise, a place where office work and vegetation can coexist.

Apartment of Distorted Relations / fala

Andreas Luco — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000

A large apartment in the city center. The original layout, highly inefficient and deeply segregated, was quickly erased, leaving behind only a few columns, plumbing shafts, and the peculiar outline of the perimeter. Within such an irregular boundary, any conventional orthogonal organization would be inadequate and a missed opportunity. The project therefore adopts a different strategy: a fluid, deliberately fragmented space whose boundaries are often ambiguous.

"The Century of Gehry": Frank Gehry Retrospective Opens at the Serralves Museum in Porto

Antonia Piñeiro — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:30:00 +0000

From June 12 to December 20, 2026, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, will be hosting a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the career of Frank Gehry (1929-2025). Titled The Century of Gehry, the exhibition presents to the public original large-scale models, sculptures, drawings, furniture, and other works documenting the architect's notable, and at times controversial, postmodern architecture. The exhibit covers from early experiments to iconic buildings such as the architect's house in Santa Mónica, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The Serralves Museum occupies a building designed by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira in 1991. The exhibition is housed in the new wing that bears his name.

Stand for Circo de Ideias / fala

Andreas Luco — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

One among many standard stands at the book fair, a 3-by-3-metre footprint tasked with holding little more than shelves and a counter. the budget, predictably, was limited. within this almost generic brief, the project accepts its condition as an installation, but refuses its expected neutrality. it works instead with what is already there: leftover metal profiles of different sections, repainted in a deliberately fresh, almost excessive palette.

Live Multispecies Kitchen / Francisca Sottomayor + Fahrenheit.Works

Valeria Silva — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Live Kitchen fosters encounters between humans and non-humans, creating an ecosystem of harmony that questions contemporary urban ways of living through art and food.

Ramalde Sports Park / Domitianus Arquitectura

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000

The intervention is located in the northern half of the Ramalde Sports Park, comprising the construction of a new field for rugby and football, a support building with locker rooms and a covered stand, an athletics area (for shot put, hammer throw, and javelin), and a space dedicated to archery.

House of Observations / fala 171

Andreas Luco — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000

The new structure enters the existing building on its own terms. A row of slender steel columns supports an I-beam that spans the space from one end to the other. Where necessary, the beams are interrupted. These cuts are exposed and celebrated. The new elements are painted in vivid red and blue. They occupy deliberately awkward positions, obstructing doors, windows, and passages. It is this inconvenience that makes the structure visible. It becomes an active participant in the space.

Arts Building / MiMool Arquitectura & Design de Interiores

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000

The intervention area was a plot of approximately 1060 m2 consisting of a building facing Rua de Adolfo Casais Monteiro and a structure extending into the interior of the plot with industrial characteristics.

Miramar Tower / OODA

Andreas Luco — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Standing out for its uniqueness in the landscape and for its proximity to the sea, Miramar Tower is similar to the buildings in Pasteleira Park to the north, in proportion and dimension, but otherwise completely distinctive in its concept approach. The volumetric composition is the result of the architectural drive with the ambition to develop housing typologies with more than 200 square meters of balcony areas per floor. On top of the podium, a vertical volume with 15 storeys emerges, parallel to the road and with roughly the same height as the tower buildings in this area. By locating the building in the most central part of the plot, it ensures maximum spacing for all adjacent buildings. Evidencing a structuralist matrix with vertical dendriform section, the building is adaptable to the typology optimization. The floors, organized with one or two rooms, create a spiral speech where the apparent rotation and modelling of the terraces at 360 degrees give it a visual and real sense of verticality.

PI House / ArquitectosRT

Andreas Luco — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Casa PI is a single-family residence located in the urban area of Porto, designed to both harmonize with its urban surroundings and stand out as a significant corner element, concluding a row of terraced houses. The proposal addresses the client’s wishes while also integrating seamlessly into the architectural context.

Oasis under a Building / fala

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Divisive transparency turned inwards, loose objects at the periphery – a glass house reversed, like a sock with a hole.

Navigating Boundaries: The Architectural Legacy of Lighthouses

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Lighthouses have stood along the margins of continents and islands for centuries as points of light in vast maritime territories. Rising in solitude from rocky cliffs, reefs, and headlands, these towers were tools for navigation and instruments of spatial clarity, shaping coastlines and marking the boundary between land and sea. Built to guide, warn, and locate, they constituted a global network of visibility long before the advent of digital mapping. Yet as maritime technologies evolved, many of these structures lost their original purpose. The typology, once essential, now stands at the edge of obsolescence. What remains is not merely an architectural relic, but a powerful spatial form — resilient, symbolic, and increasingly open to reinterpretation.

Casa da Música: Transforming Domestic Experimentation into Public Monumentality

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Wed, 21 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the turn of the millennium, the world was gripped by the looming threat of the Y2K bug, a potential failure of computerized systems that could disrupt everything from banking to aviation. As midnight approached on December 31, 1999, people withdrew their savings, major corporations issued warnings, and governments scrambled to prevent public hysteria. But as the sun rose on January 1, 2000, the feared bug had no material impact, and the crisis faded as quickly as it had emerged. However, this era left its mark in unexpected places — particularly in architecture. Amid the anxiety surrounding digital technology, one of the most iconic concert halls of our time, Casa da Música in Porto, was born. Designed by OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), its origins can be traced to a much smaller project: the Y2K House. What began as an exploration of private domesticity during the digital scare evolved into a grand public structure — an architectural transition from home to a performance hall.

Architecture Offices in Porto Through the Lens of Marc Goodwin

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Porto's architectural legacy has long been shaped by the weight of history and the clarity of form. From the work of Álvaro Siza to the dense network of studios emerging from the city's schools, Porto offers a unique blend of continuity and reinvention. Here, architecture is not only a matter of design but often one of endurance — of working within constraints, of drawing with precision, and of navigating a built environment marked by permanence and resistance to spectacle.

Bus-Metro Line Shelters for 'Boavista-Império / Álvaro Siza Vieira

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I was invited to this project by Metro do Porto and, initially, I did not accept because I understood that the basic layout would leave the avenue with only one lane for automobiles and I disagreed with the proposal for a roundabout at the junction of Av. Marechal Gomes da Costa with Av. da Boavista.

House / Atelier / oitoo

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The House / Atelier is a residential / workplace project commissioned by a couple of Designers who elected Porto as the place to raise their family. oitoo found an extremely promising plot with a generous backyard and the rather odd remnants of a building renovation gone awry.

World Tourism Day 2024: 30 Architecture City Guides to Celebrate Urban Fabrics from Around the World

Nour Fakharany — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:30:00 +0000

Tourism, as an urban and architectural phenomenon, has grown to encompass more than just sightseeing; it engages visitors with the social, cultural, and economic narratives that cities tell through their built environments. In celebration of World Tourism Day 2024, this collection of city guides highlights the role of architecture in shaping the urban tourism experience. Today, cities around the world stand as testaments to human ingenuity, historical preservation, and modern innovation. In fact, each city's versatile architecture offers a window into a city's identity, drawing millions of visitors each year who seek to understand how these spaces shape everyday life and collective memory.