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Renovation Casa d'Abreu Neto - Siza's First Work / Álvaro Siza Vieira

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Álvaro Siza writes in the descriptive memory of the renovation of the Casa d'Abreu Neto: "It was on April 20, 2022, that I returned to the first house I designed, this time to renovate it. After 65 years since its construction, it was natural for a profound intervention to be necessary while maintaining the authenticity of the house…". The Casa d'Abreu Neto is now a space for public enjoyment, establishing itself as a living museum of modern Portuguese architecture and preserving the family memory that gave rise to it.

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.

Teahouse at Taifong Golf Club / Álvaro Siza Vieira + Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000

We don’t need to play golf to design the buildings that are required where it is played.

Dongqian Lake Club Houses / Álvaro Siza Vieira + Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:00:00 +0000

In a land far, far away, live five sisters.
They are all alike, and they are all different.
They are all beautiful, some more, some less.
One is more edgy and another is more calm.
One other is elegant and another yet more so. It depends.
They are all unalike, but also similar.

Colien House / Álvaro Siza Vieira

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:00:00 +0000

The slope related to the access street and the willingness to act just on the essentials, regarding the topography and site vegetation, guided the program organization of Colien House into a compact volume that staged descends the terrain slope.

Renovation of the Zebro Viewpoint / Álvaro Siza Vieira

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Located on a rocky massif in the Serra do Moradal, by the side of ER 238, the Zebro Viewpoint is naturally accessible due to the area's topographical characteristics.

Gramaxo Foundation / Álvaro Siza Vieira

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The Gramaxo Foundation, represented by the President of the Board of Directors, Mrs. Maria de Fátima Gramaxo, intends to construct a single-story building on land it owns, as indicated in the attached topographic plan.

Serralves Museum Álvaro Siza Wing/ Álvaro Siza Vieira

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:00:00 +0000

The museum is located to the west of a clearing in the garden and connected to it by an elevated gallery, allowing it not to obstruct the path that separates the two buildings.

Jeju Island Tea House / Álvaro Siza Vieira + Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 19:00:00 +0000

First, we built the House – the Jeju House. Afterward, we were asked to design a Tea House. What Is a Tea House? Was our first question. It’s such a privilege to be an architect, to be confronted with new projects, new challenges. To solve something, study and learn.

Chia Ching House Taifong Golf Club / Álvaro Siza Vieira + Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The principal movement in the Game of Golf is a mix of power and elegance, and perfect balance. Expressing the entire process of design and construction of a Building is a common problem. There is something else, beyond the simple technical gesture or response to a brief, be that brief more or less complex. A Project cannot be measured by the first move, even though it is the fundamental move. It has to carry a great deal of energy, a great elegance, even if doing so discretely. An “a posteriori” analysis allows us to discern just how important that first move is, or the attitude, or concept, or something which we don’t find easy to explain.

611 West 56th Street Tower / Álvaro Siza Vieira

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 03:00:00 +0000

This long narrow, residential tower becomes ‘home’ from the outside, while its windowed walls climb toward the sky to capture incredible urban views from the inside.

Chapel in Miljana / Álvaro Siza Vieira

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:00:00 +0000

On 9 May 2009, a first-class cultural event took place in Zagreb, Croatia – Kenneth Frampton opened an exhibition of drawings by Álvaro Siza.

Urban Renewal of Chiado Neighborhood / Álvaro Siza + Carlos Castanheira

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Álvaro Siza's restoration project for the pedestrian routes connecting one of the courtyards of the Carmo Convent (Patio B), Largo do Carmo square, and the Carmo Terraces has been going on for over two decades. It seems that recovery plans only happen when there is a catastrophe. The restoration of the Chiado area, due to a fire in 1988, has been gradually implemented, and some buildings that were destroyed, and others that were left intact, still required renovation, like so many others outside the area.

Amore Pacific Research and Design Center / Álvaro Siza Vieira + Carlos Castanheira + Kim Jongkyu

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:59:00 +0000

Amore Pacific is a brand of cosmetics, products used in industrial quantities by oriental women to enhance their beauty, hide imperfections or to deepen the whiteness of their skin, a sign of nobility and beauty, like the gaja* whose white features, charm and musical sensibility turned her into an object of cult and desire.

MoAE – Huamao Museum of Art Education / Álvaro Siza + Carlos Castanheira

韩爽 — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Text by Álvaro Siza - A Convivial Relationship

Residencial Complex in Gallarate / Álvaro Siza + COR Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Written by Romullo Baratto. Situated in a suburban property in Gallarate, in the Italian region of Lombardy, stand the two blocks of travertine marble, Álvaro Siza's newest project: a housing condominium with 20 apartments developed in partnership with the Portuguese office COR Arquitectos. Facing the busy Via Roma and the peaceful Via Postporta, the complex recreates two local typologies - the Italian courtyard and the secluded villa - in a set of volumes that hints at the shapes of another one of Siza's masterpieces, the Porto School of Architecture.

Saya Park / Álvaro Siza + Carlos Castanheira

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Art Pavilion
There are projects that are born both out of their site and for it.
There are projects that create the site for themselves.
The Art Pavilion modified the hill site and also adapted itself to it. And we all also, adapted ourselves to the beauty of this project.

Chia Ching Mausoleum / Álvaro Siza Vieira + Carlos Castanheira

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

SILENCE