Santa Teresa Apartments project was completed by Portuguese studio Pedro Ferreira Architecture in collaboration with designer Marta Reis. Description by PFArchStudio: The city center has recently taken a radical change both socially, culturally and economically which has consequently attracted an influx of tourism. The converted apartment house is named after the street in which it is […]
Architects: Trimetrica Project: Paiva Walkways Location: Rio Paiva, Arouca, Portugal Photographs: Nelson Garrido Paiva Walkways embraces the Paiva river with an extension of 8km, providing a walking path with a breathtaking natural beauty, with picturesque landscapes, waterfalls and a variety of fauna and flora species. This project is by Arouca municipality and engineer company Trimetrica. Check out these
Restelo house is a semi-detached villa refurbished by the Portuguese studio João Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos. From the architect: This semi-detached house is located in an early 50´s residential neighborhood, more precisely at the western edge, in an area surrounded buy terraced houses, near the Restelo shopping street. The main area of intervention was the rear
Project: A House for Modern Rural Tourism Architects: Escritório de Arquitetos Location: Linhares, Portugal Architect in Charge: Nuno Flores Engineering: BO Associados Area 120.0 sqm Photographs: João Morgado Portuguese studio Escritório the Arquitetos has renovated and enlarged this farmer house in order to be destined for modern rural tourism. Description by architect: Within the Paredes
Forte Apartment is a holiday home rehabilitated by Portuguese studio Merooficina. Description by Merooficina: Integrated on a housing facility from the mid 90’s, the apartment is a result of the rampant construction that characterizes the neighborhood growing where it’s located. Maybe for this reason, it was organized in a very uncommon way: the house’s most intimate
Mima Light is a modular home designed by Portuguese studio Mima Architects. Description by Mima Architects: Mima Light is the ultimate achievement in modular construction, combining an outstanding lightness with an iconic and minimal image. This home seems to levitate above the ground due to the lining of the base with mirrors. Inspired by the
Located in Lisbon, Portugal, Chiado apartment was completed in November 2015 by Fala Studio, a naïve architecture practice based in Porto. The 120m2 apartment, built in the turn of the 19th century
Designed by Manuel Aires Mateus, and completed in 2015, this house is located on the edge of a small chain of hills. Set in relative isolation, it sits above the village of Melides and the lack of neighbouring houses allows for unobstructed views of the ocean, which are particularly magnificent at sunset. Manuel Aires Mateus
The Unique Ocean Home is a bungalow near the beach resort of Baiona in Galicia in northwestern Spain. This bungalow house was designed by Porto-based Modular System. The holiday home is situated on a hillside plot in a lush garden overlooking the Cies Islands. The house is perfect for two, but also accommodates four people: the
Project: Modern home for a young family Architects: Inês Brandão Arquitectura Location: Monte Real, Portugal Contractor: Salvador Cruz e Joaquim Crespo Photographs: João Morgado This 50 year old barn has been recovered and transformed by Inês Brandão Arquitectura in a modern home for a young family in Leiria, Portugal. Description by Inês Brandão: Recovering a
Yaroslav Galant innovative design studio finished work on an interior of Japanese cuisine restaurant – Hanaya Sushi & Gin Bar, located in Lisbon. The eclectic concept of the place – a cozy drawing room of the European who is deep in Japan – was inspired by travel of authors across Portugal and their old interest in
SAMIÂ Arquitectos have used a ruin to design a vacation home on the island of Pico, Portugal. Description by SAMI Arquitectos: 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
