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Quinta de Velude / Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Quinta de Velude is situated on a hillside facing the River Douro. Abandoned for 40 years, the Quinta stands out for its extraordinary history and its manor house with a baroque chapel. Since the Quinta and its manor house have remained abandoned, its authenticity has never been distorted. Because of this abandonment, the Quinta became completely isolated and forgotten, and its heritage value, which its history alone would justify, has never been identified. In the 14th century, the Quinta was attributed to the Morgados de Velude as an honour whose original extension led to the River Douro. Since then, it has belonged to the family and the first known will is of the noblemen Vasco Esteves de Matos and Madalena Gil, the founders of the Chapel of St Anthony (1388).

Applied, Flush and Reveal: What Are the Types of Baseboards?

Eduardo Souza — Tue, 28 May 2024 07:30:00 +0000

Architects are known for returning from travel with more photos of buildings than people and for having an esoteric vocabulary of their own. Of course, these are clichés that are not always true. But something that unites most designers is the tendency to pay attention to each detail that makes up a project, be it the material that covers the facade, the junction between different floors, how the doors open, the type of window frame, how the forms were put together for concreting, and more. But a detail that often goes unnoticed – and that makes a huge difference in interior design – is baseboards.

Coura Retreat / Luís Peixoto

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

The new structures at Paredes de Coura begin as a support for an old structure: one body laying down, another standing up, with proportions that are comparable. They are not made to be a dwelling in a remote location where they may be abandoned. They can, however, meet basic requirements such as relaxing and writing a book on a tower-like structure and staying there. Its structure is reduced to the most basic, the concrete block, which represents unity, size, and the place where everything is formed, in its multiplication.

Renovation of Póvoa de Varzim Transport Coordination Centre / Pitagoras Group

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 10 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000

The rehabilitation project of Póvoa de Varzim Transport Coordination Centre supposes a two-level approach: programmatic and constructive.

House in Santo Tirso 2 / Nuno Brandão Costa

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:00:00 +0000

The house is spread over a generous plot, deeply set within the city’s road structure, at a lower level than the streets and surroundings. It extends spatially in a deliberately geometric composition, with lines perpendicular to the line of the boundary walls.

Oito Casas / Murmuro

Andreas Luco — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The Project is part of an alottment plan that previously predicted a set of seven isolated houses that would follow the existing topography. In the northern side of the site is defined by the city’s urban limit. The aim of the promoter was to maximize the interior areas of the dwellings and the usufruct of each individual exterior space assuming a particular importance of the southern views to the city valley and the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus.

House in Amares / Luís Peixoto

Valeria Silva — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Casa em Amares results from the rehabilitation and expansion of an ancient country house, dating back to the 18th century, located in a low-density residential area interspersed with agricultural and forested land, close to Serra do Gerês. The project's main challenges resulted from the need to adapt the existing construction to contemporary housing standards and demands, without compromising the formal and temporal coherence of the ensemble. The proposal is thus divided into two volumes, of which autonomous expressions result from their specific temporal circumstances. This duality also reflects itself at a functional level, through distinct notions of domestic space that coexistent and articulated in the same house.

Casa Vilarinha / Luís Peixoto

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:00:00 +0000

The project arises from the need of rehabilitating a semi-detached house, integrated in an economic neighbourhood and built in the second half of the 1950s.

Downtown Studio / Luís Peixoto

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:00:00 +0000

This project consists in the transformation of a small apartment inserted in a building of the XIX century located in the historical center of Porto. Given the small dimension of the space and the customer's specifications to increase the useful area, the proposal is based on the design of a mezzanine over the central space, taking advantage of the high ceilings characteristic of the constructions of this period. This intermediate floor thus integrates a bedroom, an additional and open space over the living room, and above all private and separate. The lower floor develops into the living and dining room, which also includes the kitchen. The remaining service spaces like the bathroom and storage are concentrated in the surplus area, interior and under the bedroom.

Coura House / Luís Peixoto

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:00:00 +0000

The Coura project starts from the need for rehabilitation of a country house with two centuries of history, abandoned by the heirs who built new houses in the surroundings. This small scale construction, now purchased to become a holiday home, featured two floors and an original functional program consisting of an animal shelter (lower floor) and a dwelling (upper floor).

Housing Building in Foz / Luís Peixoto

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:00:00 +0000

The project, at first conceived as a white building with great transparency for its interior, eventually evolved to the work presented here, with the intention of a more sober gesture and a greater relationship with the urban environment in which it is inserted.

Rural Houses Refurbishment in Trebilhadouro / André Tavares

Sabrina Leiva — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000

The presented project consists in the transformation of nine houses for tourism in a rural area, dispersed by the small village of Trebilhadouro which, given its reduced size and the proximity between constructions, sees most of its built heritage being subject for a joint rehabilitation.

RIBA Awards 2017 Royal Gold Medal to Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Rory Stott — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:00:00 +0000

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded its 2017 Royal Gold Medal to Paulo Mendes da Rocha. The 87-year-old is among Brazil's most celebrated architects, known for his special brand of Brazilian Brutalism which has had a dramatic effect in his home country, particularly in the city of São Paulo. The award continues a spectacularly successful year for Mendes da Rocha, who won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale in May, and was announced the 2016 Premium Imperiale Laureate just weeks ago. Mendes da Rocha has also previously received the Pritzker Prize in 2006 and the Mies van der Rohe Prize for his Pinacoteca de São Paulo project in 2000.

School in Padrão da Légua / Nuno Brandão Costa

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 05:00:00 +0000

On the pretext of designing a pre-primary and primary school for children, the solution to an urban problem was sought: the quarter available for construction was characterised by a great void stuck between discordant scales and languages, open to integration into the urban fabric.

The Form of Form (4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale) / Nuno Brandão Costa + Johnston Marklee + Office KGDVS

James Taylor-Foster — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:45:00 +0000

From the architects and curatorial team. One of architecture’s fundamental legacies is its own form. Not only is history built from its visual universe, but form is also a common language that brings together architects from all over the world in a collective conversation. In this exhibition, which proceeds from a potentially infinite repository, three architects—Johnston Marklee, Nuno Brandão Costa, and Office KGDVS—build a dialogue that challenges notions of authorship and the limits of form.

Center for Environmental Education and Interpretation of the Protected Landscape of Corno de Bico / Atelier da Bouça

Victor Delaqua — Thu, 28 May 2015 15:00:44 +0000

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NP House / NoArq

Javier Gaete — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The request was adjust an old house, with 262.09 sqm, to the current standards of comfort for a 4 persons family and adequate it to the current building regulations. The old house emerges in the middle of a great mass of trees, as a landmark. The construction is divided in two floors. The ground-floor dedicated to service functions and garage, and the top floor exclusively dedicated to social divisions.

Casa Cristo / PEEL Living Projects

Victoria King — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The site has strong countryside characteristics, between growing fields and scattered constructions, connected by winding roads and paths which arise some delicate urban issues.