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The Arquipélago – Contemporary Arts Centre by Portuguese Architect Menos e Mais maintains the industrial character of the whole and highlights the dialogue between an existing building.
Continue readingThe Casa das Histórias Paula Rego was designed by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. The building makes use of certain aspects of the region’s historical architecture, which is here reinterpreted in a contemporary way. It can be immediately recognized thanks to its two pyramid-shaped towers and the red-colored concrete used in its construction.
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Casa del Monte or “The Dune House”, how it is non-officially named by the people in the area is a hidden concrete building beneath the sand and erected by Lisbon-based Pereira Miguel Arquitectos in 2009.
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The Three Courtyard House is located in a small village 25km south of Lisbon, within a natural park whose name Azeitao, derives from Arabic, Az-zeitum – the olive grove. Predominantly a rural region, the area has a hot climate, perfect for the production of wine and olive oil. The clients, a couple of agronomists with two children, inherited a long,…
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The Viriato I building is a administrative and furniture show-room designed by Nuno Brandao in 2005 and located in Paredes. This appealing building is defined by a clear rectangular volume that is suspended at the edges. This spatial strategy is used to accommodate the required parking lots.
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Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati added concrete fins to the walls of this house in Alentejo, about 10 km inland from the Atlantic Ocean, which splay outwards and inwards like the flaps of an open box to provide shade for a garden within. The rural region in central Portugal is renowned for its vineyards, as well as the cork forests used to supply bottle…
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