Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

Fernando Guerra has been a pioneer in the way architecture is photographed and divulged. Fifteen years ago, he opened studio FG+SG together with his brother, and both are responsible in large part for the diffusion of Portuguese contemporary architecture in the last fifteen years.

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Rhône 8 / Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés

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Boa Nova Tea House by Alvaro Siza Through the Lens of Fernando Guerra

The following photo set by Fernando Guerra focuses on Boa Nova Tea House, a project by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. Completed in 1963, it was one of the first works done by the 1992 Pritzker Prize winner. Built on the rocks that hang over the sea in Leça da Palmeira, the tea house is in close proximity to another iconic project by the same architect, the Leça Swimming Pools, both classified as National Monuments in Portugal.

5 Zaha Hadid Buildings Seen From Above

This week marks the first anniversary of the death of Zaha Hadid, the most successful and influential female architect in the architectural discipline. Born in Baghdad (Iraq) in 1950, Hadid became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize in 2004, and twelve years later received the gold medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Hadid's untimely death left a fascinating and inspiring legacy. Meanwhile her firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, continues to work on nearly a hundred projects worldwide. To remember her legacy, Spanish company Deimos Imaging has shared a series of photographs focusing on Hadid's work in five countries.

The images were captured by the Deimos-2 satellite, which was launched in 2014 and designed for very high-resolution Earth observation applications, providing multispectral images of just 75 centimeters per pixel. Hadid's incredible works take on a new dimension when you contemplate their proportions from the sky—or rather, from a satellite.

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Casa Elíptica / Mário Martins Atelier

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  400
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Grohe, Beissier, Catalano, Chainlight, Cifre cerámica, +8

Three Gardens House / AGi Architects

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Mubarak Al Kabeer, Kuwait
  • Architects: AGi Architects
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  panoramah!®, GMetal, GRG, Gunni&Trentino, Pedro Beltrán
  • Professionals: AGi architects

Eclipse / FAHR 021.3

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Transforma Art Studios / Pedro Gadanho + CVDB arquitectos

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Torres Vedras, Portugal

Villa Agava / Driss Kettani

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Casablanca, Morocco
  • Architects: Driss Kettani
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  450
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Duravit, Astral Intonaco, Kawneer, Zellige

Casa dos Abraços / Marlene Uldschmidt

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Ferragudo, Portugal
  • Architects: Marlene Uldschmidt
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  140
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Intra Lighting

Anticlimax: A Report on The Metabolist Dream. Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo 1972-2013 / Fala Atelier

Anticlimax: A Report on The Metabolist Dream. Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo 1972-2013 / Fala Atelier - Museums & Exhibit

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  • Architects: fala
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  48
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013

Interview with Álvaro Siza: “Beauty Is the Peak of Functionality!”

Throughout the 60-year career of Álvaro Siza, his work has continuously defied categorization--having variously been described as “critical regionalism” and “poetic modernism,” with neither quite capturing the true essence of Siza's intuitive architecture. In this interview, the latest in Vladimir Belogolovsky's “City of Ideas” series, Siza discusses those attempts to categorize his work, his design approach and the role of beauty in his designs.

Vladimir Belogolovsky: Your student, Eduardo Souto de Moura said, “Siza’s houses are just like cats sleeping in the sun.”

Álvaro Siza: [Laughs.] Yes, he meant that my buildings assume the most natural postures on the site. There is also a reference in that to the human body.

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Graça Apartment / fala

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  • Architects: fala
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alape, BRUMA, Sanitana

GAF House / Jacobsen Arquitetura

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São Paulo, Brazil

Garage House / fala

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Lisbon, Portugal
  • Architects: fala
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alape, BRUMA, Ikea, Sanitana, Vidal Tecidos

Casa Cabo de Vila / spaceworkers

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  • Architects: spaceworkers
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  340
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Focus

MAAT / AL_A

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Lisboa, Portugal
  • Architects: AL_A
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  panoramah!®, Ceràmica Cumella
  • Professionals: AFACONSULT, Disset

La Pinada House / Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

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Paterna, Spain
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  722
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Geberit, Alias, Betacryl, Dekovent, Eggersmann, +5

Modern Times Hotel / Itten+Brechbühl

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Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Switzerland