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Call for Entries Opens for the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AHI

Agustina Iñiguez — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:03:00 +0000

The call for entries for the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention (AHI), aimed at professionals and associations linked to architectural heritage, is open until March 17, 2023. Its primary objective is to recognize high-quality interventions in built heritage across all its dimensions. In doing so, the award aims to contribute to their dissemination and establish itself as a catalyst and observatory for the new challenges that contemporary architectural globalization poses to the conservation and intervention of built heritage.

Granel / SAMI-arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:38:00 +0000

O Granel is an agricultural structure located on a property in the center of Cais do Pico, in São Roque do Pico. The property's main house, locally known as Casa da Farmácia, dates back to the 17th/18th century and is one of the most significant buildings in the waterfront area of Cais do Pico, not only due to its size and refined design but also because it houses the town's pharmacy.

“Bringing the World of Engineering to Architecture”: Interview with Pedro Bandeira

Romullo Baratto — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:33:00 +0000

No País dos Arquitectos is a podcast created by Sara Nunes, who is also behind the architectural film production company Building Pictures. The podcast aims to profile the professionals, projects, and stories behind leading contemporary Portuguese architecture. With just over 10 million inhabitants, Portugal is a highly intriguing country in this professional field, and its architectural output far exceeds its demographic and territorial scale.

Carnide House / Campos Costa Arquitetos

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:50:00 +0000

In the historic center of Carnide, a village within the city of Lisbon.

Pereiro Do Cha House / Valerio Olgiati

Paula Pintos — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Text by Valerio Olgiati. The house is located in Alentejo, Portugal. It is 10 km away from the ocean. The area is known for its wide-open spaces and its rural landscape. The house is set at the end of a dirt road, in between hills and surrounded by cork oaks.

Concrete Wonders: 40 Impressive Details Using the Cement-Based Building Material

Fabian Dejtiar — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Due to its ability to mold and create different shapes, concrete is one of architecture's most popular materials. While one of its most common uses is as a humble foundation, its plasticity means that it is also used in almost all types of construction, from housing to museums, presenting a variety of details of work that deserves special attention.

Suspended House / fala

Susanna Moreira — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0000

In an artery connecting the city centre to its suburbs, where individual houses are being demolished daily to leave place for bigger housing developments, conceiving a new individual house is a delicate task. The façades of the project stemmed from a rough conjugation of both building types, sitting in a fragile ambiguity. A rational order, following the logic of the plans is superimposed with a set of seemingly inordinate elements: row windows, erratic marble frontons, seemingly arbitrary drainpipes and pink marble discs unbalancing the composition. The house is an exercise on uniqueness as much as it is an exercise on banality.

Carnival Arts Centre / José Neves

Susanna Moreira — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Carnival is celebrated in Portugal since the 13th century, occupying a central position in the collective imaginary of Torres Vedras.

E_C House / SAMI-arquitectos

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A ruin was the starting point for the design of a holiday house in the island of Pico. The project came from the will to maintain a ruin and thinking of a house that would value it, a house that could be modelled to it and take advantage at the same time, offering the most diverse and complex possibilities of living than the former typology.