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The Sister Houses / oitoo

Valeria Silva — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The village of Sistelo, in the mountainous Peneda-Gerês National Park in northern Portugal, is known for its terraced landscape, where corn fields and grazing land once shaped the local economy. Its collection of granite houses — traditional or reinterpreted — helps preserve the atmosphere that makes the village a sought-after weekend destination.

Jeronimo House / stefano riva architetto

Susanna Moreira — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The project is located on a property in the Douro Barro region – Resende – an area known for its vineyard landscape.

House CVV / TRAMA arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000

The CVV House was a challenge posed by a couple who decided to swap the city of Lisbon for the city of Braga in search of a more peaceful living experience. To achieve this, they acquired a plot of land on the outskirts, with unobstructed views of the city and the surrounding natural landscape.

House / Atelier / oitoo

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The House / Atelier is a residential / workplace project commissioned by a couple of Designers who elected Porto as the place to raise their family. oitoo found an extremely promising plot with a generous backyard and the rather odd remnants of a building renovation gone awry.

KITKAT House / Empty Space Architecture

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000

The proposal essentially consists of reorganizing the interior program by expanding floor -1 to make better use of the house's relationship with the garden and restructuring the existing one, altering as little as possible the volume visible from the outside of the house. This operation is intended to guarantee the image of the existing house.

Concrete, Wood, Steel and Glass: How to Choose the Material of a Staircase?

Valeria Montjoy — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:30:00 +0000

Most of us use stairways every day, but few times do we stop to contemplate their design or put much thought into their function. With their steps, treads and railing, they are easily one of the most fundamental architectural elements in any home. Apart from providing a safe, simple and easy access from one floor to another, it is through staircases that architects create unique spatial forms and strong visuals. From afar, one can observe people moving up and down repeatedly; from within, the user is treated to new angles and ways to perceive a space. Therefore, good staircases are more than just means of vertical circulation. Through their might and scale, they can become the protagonist of a space – a design focal point that rises to the level of art. In this article, we present their versatile characteristics and material qualities through a selection of inspiring examples, all of which can be found in Architonic's 'Staircases' section.

Ancestral Church of Fraião / Nuno Ferreira Capa | arquitectura e design

Valeria Silva — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 03:00:00 +0000

The architectural intervention in the Ancestral Church of Fraião, in Braga, Portugal, is an intervention of analysis and decision. An analysis of the degradation state of the latest interventions carried out at the beginning of the 20th century. The coatings and extensions made with painted cement mortars, both inside and outside the main church, reinforced the decision to uncover its original characteristics by removing the degraded coatings.

Surrey Park Washroom / JIM Architecture

Andreas Luco — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:00:00 +0000

While Vancouver gets all the press, it can only do so because behind the scenes Surrey is doing all the work. Though the community is largely made up of single-family homes and industrial warehouses, that suburban look belies an increasingly dynamic and diverse urban place. In fact, it's likely that Surrey will eventually be the largest city in the region. In 2018 the City of Surrey’s Parks Division asked us to develop a modular park washroom.

The Beauty of Marble in Interiors and Facades

Eduardo Souza — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 04:30:00 +0000

Michelangelo's sculptures. The ancient Greek temples. Castle interiors and palaces. The iconic Barcelona Pavilion of Mies van der Rohe. When we approach the history of architecture and sculpture, it is inevitable that we speak of marble. Originating from a chemical reaction in limestone when exposed to high pressures and temperatures for thousands of years, this notable material is a metamorphic rock generally found in regions where volcanic activity has occurred. Its extraction, by itself, is already a spectacle.

Condeixa House / BAAU + Diego Inglez de Souza

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Located in the old part of Condeixa-a-Nova, a historical town in the Coimbra region, this house belonged to a Portuguese family that immigrated to Brazil in the 1960s. For three decades the house was in ruins until recently a great-grandson got the opportunity of rebuilding it. The owner, an architect graduated in FAU-USP, comments on the experience of the design and building process, which ended up being an exchange of knowledge and experiences with the local architect in charge, Bernardo Amaral from BAAU, an architecture office based in Porto.

Kentaro Yamada Apartment / Bernardo Amaral Arquitectura e Urbanismo

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0000

This nineteenth-century townhouse placed in Porto’s historical center was recently transformed by a real estate developer into a collective housing building with 8 apartments (studios, one and two-bedroom apartments). Having kept the existing central staircase and its lightwell, each apartment has one sole front, either facing the street or the backyard. The refurbishment project focuses on one of these apartments, located on the penultimate floor and facing South. Despite its narrow lot and irregular shape, we tried to re-organize the interior space taking advantage of it’s potential for a two-bedroom apartment.

Visconde Setúbal House / Alessandro Pepe Arquitecto

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:00:00 +0000

This is a student house located in the center of Porto city. The experience of construction workers permitted the development of good level details of construction, even using the simplest materials. The building has a total of four floors: the basement, the ground floor, the first floor and the attic. In the basement is where the community areas are: two kitchens, two bathrooms, a storage space and a technical area. Within the main kitchen, there is an informal living area that - with the help of the backyard garden - offers a continuous space, for social student gatherings.

1930 City Lodge / Ren Pepe Arquitetos

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

1930 CITY LODGE is a design hotel in the north of Porto city. It has 3 suite rooms and 2 dormitory rooms.