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Play Contract / Superflex + KWY.studio

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Playgrounds are meant to stimulate play, but most are designed based on grown-ups’ notions of children and how they should behave. With Play Contract, the balance of power is tipped, and now it’s the children’s turn to devise a playful space for themselves and grown-ups. A group of 122 children in Billund, Denmark was given 100,000 pink LEGO bricks to build models for playgrounds. These models were then analyzed and synthesized into five final designs, which were constructed in pink marble. The result is a collage of adventurous ideas and whimsical shapes that have been transformed into Play Contract.

School in Vila Nova da Barquinha / Aires Mateus

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 03:00:00 +0000

The universes we attend in childhood tend to linger in our memories. It's the time when we interact with architecture in a more free and genuine way. It is when we settle appropriations and intuitively hierarchize values of architecture. We are interested in identifying the assets that are esteemed by all, and design the memories that will be formed.

House in Alcobaça / Aires Mateus

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:00:00 +0000

The house designed in the historical center of Alcobaça is a record of overlapping times: A small building reconstructed to perpetuate the vernacular common scale, and a wall thoroughly shaped to house the quiet extension.

Fonte de Angeão School / Miguel Marcelino

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 04:00:53 +0000

The school setting allows a close relationship with nature, located in the countryside, the new primary school + kindergarten is surrounded by beautiful adult trees.

PROJECTO DE REMODELAÇÃO E AMPLIAÇÃO DO MUSEU NACIONAL DE MACHADO DE CASTRO / Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 02:00:46 +0000

The museum, located at Alta of Coimbra, is a place of intense sedimentation and historical superimposition over two millennia where lies the Roman Forum Aemininum, the Romanesque church of S. João de Almedina, the gallery of Terzi.

Art and Architecture Faculty / Ventura Trindade Arquitectos + Inês Lobo Arquitectos

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

1916 - 1970 Original programme. Built in 1916, the Alentejo Milling Society became the Leões pasta factory in the 1970s.

Rio de Moinhos Open Air Theatre / ateliermob

Nico Saieh — Mon, 06 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Following an international competition for the banks of the Tagus River in four counties in central Portugal where ateliermob got the first prize, they were asked to design three projects in the municipality of Abrantes. Located on the right bank of the Tagus River, near the village of Rio de Moinhos, the Cais das Barcas served as a fishing boat dock and transported people and goods between the two banks. Over the years, that space lost its essence, both due to the nearly non-existent maintenance as the constant flooding of the Tagus (the height of the pier is +18.00 m, and the 1979 flood overflowed the river, which rose to 31.00 m).

Quinta dos Alcoutins / GGLLatelier

Diego Hernández — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The House is inserted on an estate situated at the northern limit of Lisbon, the lot is north-facing with an accentuated decline.

House in Quinta Patino / Frederico Valsassina Arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The design was based on a constant modulus whose multiplication regrou the size and position of the openings of the compartments. The shape follows the parallelepiped will close on the house itself, visually extending the interior space to outer space contained. Are assumed, so the patios as an extension housing; strategic views are open to the surrounding natural terrain, taking advantage of the abundant vegetation and the irregularity of the rock.

House in Azóia / Steven Evans - Ricardo Jacinto

Nico Saieh — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The house is situated on a narrow and sheltered site on the foothills of the Sintra mountains,. overlooking the sea

Francisco De Arruda School / José Neves

Victoria King — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

It is a project within the “School Modernization Program” sponsored by the Parque Escolar, for a school originally designed by architect José António Pedroso in 1956. The three bodies that constitute the school are situated on the hillside in the continuity of the Faculty of Agronomy fields, overlooking the district of Alcântara.

Flashback: Arts Centre - Casa Das Mudas / Paulo David

Christopher Henry — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Flashback: One of Archdaily’s goals is to bring you up to date information about projects that are being designed and constructed around the world. We’ve created a new category to cover inspiring projects that were constructed between the 1990′s and the early 2000′s.

Lisbon Stone Block / Alberto de Souza Oliveira

Megan Jett — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Lisbon’s Stone Block is located in the corner of two major streets and that position is somehow special in the relation that the building it-self creates with the “urban net”.

Sines Center for the Arts / Aires Mateus

Nico Saieh — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The building is situated at the start of the main street linking the town to the sea and marking the traditional entrance to the historic nucleus. The Centre subsumes diverse activities capable of generating an exceptional building: exhibition rooms, a library, cinema-cum-theatre and a documentation centre. The wide-raging program calls for the whole plot to be occupied, enveloping the street below mean ground level and adapting its exterior volumetry to the monumental scale of the castle walls.

S. Romão Sports Park / José Marini Bragança

Nico Saieh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

On the outskirts of Leiria, beside the river Lis, where the urban and rural areas meet, a vast area has benefit from the intervention of the Polis Program. Its purpose was to extend the city to the river, by rebuilding the urban areas and redesigning an unoccupied zone, where the new sports park of the city was created. One of the facilities built was the tennis club.

House in Alto de Ajuda / extrastudio

Nico Saieh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This project is located in Alto da Ajuda in Lisbon, once a working class neighborhood designed in the beginning of the 40’s during the dictatorship. The project’s strategy is the outcome of a fundamental question – How to conciliate all the preservation and zoning restrictions with a new program without compromising the original masterplan principles?