Arménio Teixeira

Quinta de Velude / Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos

February 06, 2025

Architects: Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos
Area: 3444 ft²
Year: 2023

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

May 28, 2024

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

July 11, 2022

+ 19

Architects: Luís Peixoto
Area: 301 ft²
Year: 2021
Manufacturers: ARTEBEL

Renovation of Póvoa de Varzim Transport Coordination Centre / Pitagoras Group

May 10, 2022

+ 16

Architects: Pitágoras Group
Area: 2970 m²
Year: 2021

House in Santo Tirso 2 / Nuno Brandão Costa

April 06, 2022

+ 31

Architects: Nuno Brandão Costa
Area: 268 m²
Year: 2019

Oito Casas / Murmuro

January 17, 2022

+ 25

Architects: Murmuro
Area: 2400 m²
Year: 2019
Manufacturers: EGGER, Blum, C&A Chama, CIN, Cortizo, +6Ferreira e Américo, Mapei, Oli, Sanitana, Valadares, W2007-6

House in Amares / Luís Peixoto

July 12, 2021

+ 19

Architects: Luís Peixoto
Area: 249 m²
Year: 2020
Manufacturers: AutoDesk, CS Coelho da Silva, Cortizo, Doerken, Recer, +3Sanindusa, Sanitana, Velux-3

Casa Vilarinha / Luís Peixoto

December 19, 2018

+ 28

Architects: Luís Peixoto
Area: 1931 ft²
Year: 2017
Manufacturers: panoramah!®, ADF, Estremoz, Gneisse, Jofebar Panoramah, +1Sanindusa-1

Downtown Studio / Luís Peixoto

December 11, 2018

+ 11

Architects: Luís Peixoto
Area: 807 ft²
Year: 2018
Manufacturers: Investwood, Margres, Flaminia, Primus Vitória, Sanindusa

Coura House / Luís Peixoto

December 03, 2018

+ 16

Architects: Luís Peixoto
Area: 1291 ft²
Year: 2017
Manufacturers: Beker, Fama, Roriz, Sanitana, Victoria

Housing Building in Foz / Luís Peixoto

November 30, 2018

+ 17

Architects: Luís Peixoto
Area: 11840 ft²
Year: 2017
Manufacturers: Sika, A. Sousa Alves (Asa), Cortizo, Galrão, Gneisse, +1Sanches-1

Rural Houses Refurbishment in Trebilhadouro / André Tavares

February 15, 2017

+ 22

Architects: André Tavares
Area: 897 m²
Year: 2015
Professionals: Rogério B. Santos Construções Lda.

RIBA Awards 2017 Royal Gold Medal to Paulo Mendes da Rocha

February 01, 2017

Update: Paulo Mendes da Rocha was today awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal at a ceremony at the RIBA headquarters in London. The article below was originally published when the award was announced on September 29, 2016.

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.

Mendes da Rocha becomes the second Brazilian to win the RIBA's Gold Medal, after Oscar Niemeyer received the award in 1998. He joins other luminaries such as Zaha Hadid (2016), Frank Gehry (2000), Norman Foster (1983), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1941).