Luis Fernández-Galiano   Portugal was rescued by the EU in 2011, and Spain the following year, so the two Iberian countries seem to be departing from Europe like the stone raft that Saramago imagined, breaking off from the continent as a crack opened in the Pyrenees. But tha

Jorge Figueira   Is there such a thing as ‘Portuguese architecture’? In the early decades of the 20th century, modern architecture was for the Portuguese an aspiration postponed, considering the political and cultural circumstances of the period, with its tendency to

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   Visiting wineries to become acquainted with the winemaking process and tasting the wines produced on the same grounds is a growing tourist attraction. This building for the production and maturing of wines in the Duero River region makes this experie

Eduardo Souto de Moura   Portugal   With more than five hundred years of history, the Bernardas Convent was founded in 1509, and is the only one of the Cister Order in this Portuguese southern region. The 1755 earthquake severely damaged the building – although the Manuelin portal surv

Francisco Vieira de Campos   Portugal   The proposal for the extension of the Quinta do Vallado Winery seeks to reconcile the practical needs related to winemaking with a smooth integration in the landscape. The new volumes try in this way to establish an at once tense and balanced long-te

Camilo Rebelo, Tiago Pimentel   Portugal   Posed up high on a hill, the Museum of Art and Archaeology of the Côa Valley – an area that is known to house an exceptional collection of Paleolithic engravings – takes up the axis that separates the José Esteves Valley from the Do Fornojusto Valley

e|348   Portugal   Atriangular and sloping plot with a high visibility was the site chosen for this chapel, where the project considered the possibility of celebrating masses both indoors and outdoors. Two works inspired the authors: the church of São Pedro das Águia

Barbosa & Guimarães   Portugal   The new law Court building in the small city of Gouveia goes up on a site between two public gardens, at the end of Rampa do Monte do Calvário. The project foresees the replacement of an existing structure that took up the whole block, which has allo

Afaconsult   Portugal   The historic center of the city of Covilhã, in the interior of Portugal, goes up on a hill on the southern border of Serra da Estrela. The complex topography of this site, filled with watercourses, has determined both the urban layout of Covilhã and

Gonçalo Byrne, João Pedro Falcão de Campos   Portugal   This urban renewal project addressed the need to make the city center of São Martinho do Porto more accessible, a seaside city in the region of Alcobaça whose waterfront promenade, the main tourist attraction, is at a lower level regarding the histor

Nuno Piedade Alexandre   Portugal   Vale de Santarém is a small town a few kilometers from the city of Santarém and around seventy from Lisbon. This landscape of gently rolling hills and vineyards, close to the Tagus River, was the place chosen by the architect to build his family home

ASPA   Portugal   The 9 April Garden, also known as the Rocha de Conde de Óbidos Garden or of the Albertas – in reference to the convent of the Carmelite nuns, which went up right in front, and that has been replaced today with the National Museum of Ancient Art – is

Pedro Campos Costa   Portugal   Designed by Peter Chermayeff for the Universal Exposition of Lisbon in 1988, the Oceanarium is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city, and the square before it, one of the most dynamic spaces of the Parque das Naçoes where it is loca

Alberto de Souza Oliveira   Portugal   This residential block goes up where two of Lisbon’s main avenues converge, and turns its prominent position within the urban fabric into the essential element of its design. The main idea of the project is based on the creation of a ‘mutant facade’:

Joao Luis Ferreira, Joao Perloiro, Paulo Martins Barata, Paulo Perloiro, Pedro Appleton, Promontório   Portugal   In 2005, a family-based agriculture company invited Promontório to design an innovative resort concept that would combine the rural experience of wine and olive oil production, with the amenities of a leisure destination. Located in a valley near Mo

ARX Portugal, José Mateus, Nuno Mateus, Stefano Riva   Portugal   The clients were looking for a weekend house that, while showing a clearly contemporary image, would evoke the popular architecture of the region of the Alentejo, with its pitched roofs, often asymmetrical, and its white limestone facades. Furthermo

João Maria Ventura Trindade   Portugal   Natura 2000 is a biodiversity preservation program of the European Union that follows the objective of protecting spaces that have a rich fauna and flora. This center for the study of nature, developed on one of these sites, intervenes on three exist

Ricardo Bak Gordon   Portugal   Belonging to the company Oliveira da Serra, of the Portuguese agri-food group Sovena, the Marmelo Mill factory is at once a symbolic and functional building. Its design is therefore not only limited to fulfilling the demanding technical requirements

Paulo David   Portugal   The basalt lava formation in which the caves of São Vicente are located, in the island of Madeira, is covered in lush vegetation. The roots of these plants and the trickling water cause debris to fall around the cave mouths. The key objective of this

Aires Mateus   Portugal   The project intends to evoke the architectural landscape of the Azores, drawing on the form and material that embed the collective memory of this archipelago and that have become, with time, a second nature of this place. Therefore, the two buildings

SAMI Arquitetos   Portugal   Sitting on a hillside of the northern coast of Pico Island, in the Archipelago of the Azores, the C/Z House tries to make the most of the different views it can enjoy thanks to its vantage position over the sea and the mountain, resting on the slope

Nuno Ribeiro Lopes   Portugal   The volcanic eruption of 1957 transformed the landscape of the island of Fayal in the Azores, burying the lighthouse that stood on the western tip of the island and opening up a new and important chapter in the scientific understanding of underwater