Portuguese Architecture
Architecture and design work from Portugal, spanning residential, educational and vernacular projects across Porto, the Algarve and Alqueva.
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Studio Gontijo Arquitetura Strips a Compartmentalized Brasília House and Rebuilds It Around Gardens and Water
In Brasília, Vista House replaces a walled-off family home with charred timber volumes, vine-draped cantilevers and rooms that open onto pool and garden.
Parto Grafts a Board-Marked Concrete Wing onto a Granite Farmhouse Beside Veade's Village Church
In Veade, northern Portugal, Parto stitches a board-marked concrete wing onto an old granite house, holding the street wall down to the village church.
Fragmentos Turns a Former Plastics Warehouse on Lisbon's Rua da Junqueira into Courtyard Apartments with a Rooftop Pool
Beside the Quake museum in Lisbon's Alcântara-Belém stretch, Fragmentos stacks white terraces, timber screens and a rooftop pool over an old warehouse.
Ricardo Azevedo Arquitecto Grows a 1938 Granite House in Santo Tirso into a Five-Bedroom Home with a Zinc Wing
A 1938 granite house on Rua do Retiro in Santo Tirso keeps its arches and rooflines while a dark metal wing and pool open it to the garden.
Ricardo Azevedo Arquitecto Revives a Derelict Santo Tirso Townhouse with Raw Stone, Oak and a Yellow Spiral Stair
A 375 m² rehabilitation in central Santo Tirso, Portugal, keeps its granite and rough stone and threads colour, skylights and a garden pool through them.
Sergio Sampaio Archi and Tectônica Set a Timber-Framed House on Stilts Above a Wooded Slope in Jacareí
In Jacareí's Paraíba Valley, a 440 m² house enters from a steel roof deck and descends through a glulam frame to a pool above the Jaguari reservoir.
Escala Arquitetura Steps a Stone-and-Timber House Down a Narrow Forested Slope in Araras, Brazil
In Araras, Brazil, a 1,300 m² house of rubble stone walls and thin timber roofs breaks into pavilions that track a narrow lot's steep fall.
tip architects Turns Seixal's Mundet Cork Factory into a Waterfront Apartment Hotel
On the Seixal waterfront, Upon Harbor sets glazed, stepped apartment volumes on the old Mundet factory plinth and cuts a passage through its memory.
Frederico Zanelato Arquitetos Gathers Cane-Screened Pavilions Around a Courtyard Tree for a Bahia Beach House
In Porto Seguro, Scarlet House reworks the Bahia house as a cluster of timber pavilions, clay tile roofs and cane screens tuned to sun and sea breeze.
VOA Arquitetura Opens a Twenty-Year-Old Family Beach House on São Paulo's Coast to the Sea
A renovation at Praia da Baleia, São Sebastião, wraps an aging holiday home in timber slats and glass, turning it outward toward the beach and garden.
Terra Arquitetura Rebuilds a Higienópolis Apartment Around Curved Walls, Cane Joinery and Treetop Windows
In São Paulo's Higienópolis, a 230 m² apartment is reorganized with soft plaster curves, oak and cane joinery, and a terrazzo kitchen floor.
Michel Macedo Arquitetos Suspends the Bedrooms of a Brazilian House over a 12-Meter Living Void
In Brazil, the Bom Retiro House lifts a louvered bedroom box over a clear 12-meter span, turning the void below into the home's social center.
IDEIA1 Wraps a Porto Alegre Residential Tower in Timber Slats and Trailing Balcony Gardens
In a traditional Porto Alegre neighborhood, IDEIA1's Tomaz Building layers concrete slabs, timber screens and trailing planters.
Obra Arquitetos Sinks a Board-Formed Concrete House Below the Street on a Steep Brazilian Hillside
In Brazil, FPW House steps a board-formed concrete frame down a steep lot, leaving the street a clear view over its green roofs to the farmland beyond.
Pereira Miguel Arquitectos Scatters Ochre Volumes Under One Roof in a Grândola Pine Forest
In Grândola, Portugal, Casa Muda L13 turns the gaps between its rendered rooms into living space, decks and framed views of a pine-ringed valley.
AIA Estúdio and João Carrascosa Split a Petrópolis Hillside House into a Timber Pavilion and Two Plastered Suites
In the mountains of Petrópolis, Brazil, a reclaimed timber pavilion and two green-roofed suites step along the contour around a sheltered courtyard.
Fragmentos Steps a Tróia Dune House Back from the Shoreline in Staggered Ochre Volumes
In Carvalhal, Portugal, a 342 m² family house splits into stepped stucco blocks that face the estuary and Arrábida while staying low against the dunes.
M2 Senos Arquitectos Answers Costa Nova's Striped Palheiros with a Single Green Gable on a Concrete Plinth
In Gafanha da Encarnação, Portugal, a 353 m² family house sets a muted green gable on a near-invisible concrete base among the dunes of Costa Nova.
Saraiva + Associados Wraps a Barreiro Apartment Building in Curving White Balconies Facing the Tagus
In Barreiro, on the south bank of the Tagus, stacked balcony slabs, a rooftop pool and a shared courtyard turn apartment life outward toward the river.
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