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House in Beloura / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The house is positioned on the site with the aim of responding in a relatively simple way to two central questions: How can it capture a panoramic view of the horizon, which also brings us the presence of the sea? How can it embrace outdoor spaces that simultaneously protect the residents' privacy from neighbors' views and ensure comfort on days of strong wind?

House on the Sand / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 03:00:00 +0000

The house is defined as a material and tectonic volume, with a faceted and articulated geometry, strongly attached to the terrain. Despite being halfway up the slope, it is set in a hillside situation, enjoying a relative sensation and visual dominance over the landscape.

Castilho 203 Building / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000

It was about designing the architectural project of a residential building for the corner lot located at the intersection of Castilho Street and Padre António Vieira. Until then, there was an office building - designed by architect Tomás Taveira - to which the new owner decided to give a new use, apartments, according to the high standards already present in the area. Among other buildings, the former Hotel Ritz.

Costa Nova Social and Cultural Center / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 16:00:00 +0000

The building is located on the Costa Nova dunes, between the beach and the Avenue Nossa Senhora da Saúde leading to it. The sand is cut by a wide net of wooden walkways, which go over the dunes and allow pedestrian crossing from the urban cluster to the beach. To the east, the street is mainly composed by small apartment buildings, two or three stories high. At street level there's no actual sea view but one can sense its presence beyond the dune.

Olival Street House / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:00:00 +0000

The project states the profound reformulation of a building of 4 apartments located on Rua do Olival, in Lisbon, transforming it into a single-family house. From the pre-existence, due to the imposition of the council, the main façade was maintained, with the rest of the building being entirely new. It was thus decided to take advantage of the juxtaposition of two different times, apparent in the original architecture present on the facade and that of a new interior that is admittedly contemporary, establishing a different dialogue between these two moments, expressive both inside and outside.

Redbridge School / ARX Portugal Arquitetos

Valeria Silva — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Redbridge is a new international school located in the heart of Lisbon, in the popular neighborhood of Campo de Ourique. The pedagogic challenge was ambitious: to create an innovative school with a human approach, that promotes creativity, the joy for learning and the openness to international multilingual exchange, where art plays an educational central role, children feel at home, valued, safe and happy.

House in São Pedro do Estoril / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:00:00 +0000

This plot is located in S. Pedro do Estoril, a suburb of Lisbon, within walking distance to beach. Waterfront ambiance defines the privileged character of this area, once a summer retreat of local aristocratic families. It is inserted on a large scale urbanization, in a medium density sector for single family homes. Local regulations define basic parameters – building in the center of the plot, leaving the surrounding space for a garden. It allows for a 3 floor house, one below ground, restricts building footprint and total gross area.

House in Lisbon / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:00:00 +0000

The concept for this house emerges from a reflection on the identity of Lisbon architecture, a recurring type of 6-meter-wide and 15-meter-long deep house, ending in a small garden in the back. It is a 5-storey building with two radically different elevations: one “public” in white lioz limestone (the most used in Lisbon) and the one in the back, in glass, connected by an interior world in exposed concrete, punctuated by birch wood elements.

Abrantes Municipal Market / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 05:00:00 +0000

The Abrantes Municipal Market is located in the transition to the historical center, where the Rodoviária do Tejo's workshops once were, so badly in ruins that demolition was recommended. It is an urban lot between two streets, each at a different height: at the bottom (to the west) we have the Largo do Tribunal (Court Square); at the top to the east, the N. Sra da Conceição street. It is an extraordinarily narrow lot for the program at hand, and this feature has ultimately determined the design project.

House NX / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

This house took a real long time to come through. In this interval of a 7 years total, the context changed radically. What was once an inclined land lot with a panoramic view over the sea, has become a strangled place amidst high buildings, sometimes up to 9-storeys, meanwhile built in the way, between the houses and the sea.

11 Houses in Murtal / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

It is not often than we have the chance to project houses for both sides of one street. This is actually about planning a whole street, its atmosphere, its character, rhythm, texture, colour, etc.
It is a project to be worked on in two simultaneous scales, a city-scale and yet another one, smaller, domestic, individual.
This twofold condition is always present, even though public space is previously defined in sidewalk width, asphalt and parking spaces.

Forum Sintra / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The design project for Forum Sintra deals with a complex intervention on a pre-existing shopping mall adjoined to Feira Nova supermarket, near the IC-19 road arriving at Sintra (Abrunheira). The space once occupied by shops and movie theatres was demolished to give way to this new building, while the supermarket is still operating until the intervention is concluded, after which it will move up to a different business ground, starting to operate then as Pingo Doce supermarket.

Mythos Building / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 01:00:00 +0000

This project was selected and invited, with 16 other project teams, for an international contest promoted by IMOCOM in July 2006.

Coimbra Blood Bank / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 01:00:00 +0000

A Regional Blood Centre is essentially a highly complex laboratory building, where the donated blood is separated into its three major components and transformed for medicinal purposes.

Ílhavo Maritime Museum Extension / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Nico Saieh — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The codfish aquarium connects two other buildings and sets and a complex built ensemble, united around the subjects of the sea and fishing. In this unusual structure, the Maritime Museum is the place of memory, the Aquarium the space for marine life and CIEMAR, installed in the old renovated school, the research center for the activities of man linked to the sea.

Caneças High School / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Nico Saieh — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The existent school is located in the outskirts of Caneças, Odivelas, in a territory of intense discontinuities. The proposal is structured beginning in a double interpretation of the learning concept: formal learning and informal learning.

House In Juso / ARX Portugal Arquitectos + Stefano Riva

Victoria King — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In the concept for this small house in the vicinity of Aldeia de Juso, the tiniest area of flat land and the house’ s, as well as the high density of the new houses yet to be built in the surroundings, forcibly draw us to some sort of “obsession” about the possibilities of dilating space.

House in Leiria / ARX Portugal Arquitectos

Megan Jett — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:00:00 +0000

The house is located in a "typical" peripheral urbanization of Pousos, a parish of the municipality of Leiria. Situated east of the city and at high ground, it works as a sort of panoramic belvedere over Leiria.