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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.

Ermida House / Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:00:00 +0000

As Casas da Ermida – the name I gave them because it is the name of the Place. They were there, and well, elevated above the River. The Douro River. With the construction of the Carrapatelo Dam, the River reached the lands and the Houses. Many remained down there, hidden in the waters. The classification of the Albufeira Reserved Zone was also defined by the line 50m from the River bank. Which rises and ... falls. It depends.

Fontinha House / Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 03:00:00 +0000

I know the city of Porto well. I thought I did. I went to Fontinha, right in the center of Porto, and entered a demesne with a bucolic air as if it were in the middle of the countryside, but protected by high walls. There was already a house there, the parents' house. With a tower that allowed you to leave the demesne and see all the urbanity of Porto, even to Foz, through the Atlantic.

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.

Adega Casa da Torre / Carlos Castanheira

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000

A winery is no longer what it used to be.

São Cosme House / Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Architecture is always transformation. Preferably for the better. But not always.

Quinta da Faísca Tourist Accomodation / Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000

A Leap into the Open. After the re-structuring of the Adega da Quinta da Faísca was complete, the need for visitor accommodation became apparent. All of the estates were already occupied. Almost entirely. By the vines, the existing houses, and the winery itself. Also, by olive and almond trees. That left the areas where it was, almost impossible to grow vines and then, the nearly endless view.

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.

Taboadella Winery / Carlos Castanheira

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0000

The view on arrival at the Estate is amazing. The soft undulation of the vineyards lets you to take in almost the whole property at once. In the distance, the Big House overlooks the fifty hectares of landscape, embracing it and dominating it.
A small river, a tributary of the Dão, snakes along, defining the property boundary to the Southwest.

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 Jang Kyu

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:59:00 +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

韩双羽 - HAN Shuangyu — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Text by Álvaro Siza - A Convivial Relationship

Feelviana Hotel / Carlos Castanheira

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:00:00 +0000

The location is one of those places that we imagine no longer exists. Urban pressures, the passage of time and the resulting constraints, that often transform a specific locale from an interesting to a less interesting locale, have not affected this site’s essential existence or character. Cabedelo and its beach were perhaps better known in the past, due to the leisure activities on offer, the beach and local nightlife and entertainment.

Equestrian Centre / Carlos Castanheira + Clara Bastai

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We always worry about the well being of the people who will inhabit the spaces that we design and hope to see built. To inhabit is to occupy those spaces and to perform the vital functions of comfort, of work or pleasure. In reality, it is to do with ordering and giving form to functions.

Treetop Walk / Carlos Castanheira

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:00:00 +0000

The Canopy Walkway in Serralves
A visit to Serralves is always a walk through space, in time or in the time of space.
Creating a new walk that complements the existing ones, could only be IN THE CANOPY of the beautiful and imposing trees of the Park.

Barrocas Pavilion / Carlos Castanheira

Andreas Luco — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:00:00 +0000

The Pavilion is a fait-divers. Being an Architect brings along this kind of thing. To find a client looking for something that’s not the usual. What luck! Something that’s built with the passing of time. It had to be isolated. Music with no restrictions. Books, lots of books. A room for to house a passion for model trains.

Expansion of Barrocas House / Carlos Castanheira

Andreas Luco — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 07:00:00 +0000

One arrives along a straight line, in amongst holm cork trees that defy all rules of stability, extending their arms into impossible cantilevers. This is a monte alentejano * and buildings emerge from this hill. These are recent buildings, and all of them of them built by the owner. The main building is in timber. Of so-called standard construction, which finds it somewhat difficult in adapting to the topography. Happy with the experience of living in a wooden house, the now larger family, intend to enlarge the main living room and add a bedroom, so as to create the necessary conditions to live here permanently. When one begins to alter what’s existing, little by little, it becomes evident that it is not enough to juxtapose or paste in new areas, new volumes.