The project proposes the construction of a new building for the International Contemporary Sculpture Museum (MIEC), and the renovation of São Bento Monastery, which houses the Abade Pedrosa Municipal Museum (MMAP). The punctual connection between the
Surrounded by rocky outcrops that dot the landscape, the São Lourenço do Barrocal estate in Alentejo grew during the 19th century until it became a small farm village, with cattle, cereals, vegetables, and wine to support a community of up to fifty f
In front of Sete Cidades Lake, on São Miguel Island in the Açores, a series of traditional houses dots the hillside in a peripheral area of the town. The project reinterprets the basic volume of the traditional constructions around it – built with wh
Considered to be one of the seven natural wonders of Portugal, Sete Cidades Lake is one of the main touristic attractions on the island of São Miguel, in the Açores Archipelago. A masterplan was drafted in 2005 with the objective of balancing the exp
Within the metropolitan area of Porto, the freguesia of Oliveira do Douro is located on the left bank of the river and is part of the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia. In this suburban context, the house is conceived as an observation platform that
Built in the 13th century in front of the municipality of Tui, the Valença fortress is one of the most important defense systems on the frontier between Spain and Portugal. Over the course of time, the historic center has suffered several extensions
The sanatorium sits at the top of the Serra da Estrela mountain range, at a height of 1.300 meters. It was built in 1944 to help speed up the recovery process of tuberculosis patients, who could benefit here from the healing properties of the sun and
Designed to house cultural and sports events, the multipurpose pavilion is right by the Lima River, in the Portuguese city of Viana do Castelo, and is part of the master plan to regenerate the banks of the estuary. The urban project, drafted by Ferna
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
The St. Johann district in the Swiss city of Basel is the site chosen for the campus of the pharmaceutical company Novartis: a miniature city designed by the urbanist Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani that includes works by renown architects like David Chi
Paula rêgo (Lisbon, 1935), painter, draftswoman and engraver, is one of the most noteworthy figures of contemporary Portuguese art; her work reveals the influence of Lucien Freud, Arshile Gorky or Balthus. She was trained at the Slade School of Fine
The Portuguese city of Portalegre is located at the edge of Serra de São Mamede Natural Park, just a few kilometers from the frontier with Extremadura. Traditionally linked to the textile industry of tapestries since the 17th century, the creation of
The project is located in a transition area between the historic center of Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona), with a compact and established urban fabric, and the neighborhood of Singuerlin, with a precipitous and discontinuous morphology. The are
Located opposite the main axis of Avenida da Boavista and just a few meters from the Quinta da Avenida semi-detached housing complex – also by Souto de Moura –, this commercial and office building is conceived as a large plinth on which a series of i
Very close to the frontier with Spain, the Portuguese municipality of Ponte de Lima is the holiday destination of a large number of families who spend weekends or longer periods there. On the outskirts of this tourist site, named after its Roman brid
Designed as a tribute to the work of the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, the most famous and long-lived among Portuguese directors, the Casa do Cinema is a small reinforced concrete construction of two levels, resembling a film camera the two large len
With five lines and 68 stations, the Metro of Porto is a large and extremely complex infrastructure. Among the many tasks that setting up this vast network of 70 kilometers entailed, the architectural definition of the stations was an especially impo
Located between the Duero River and the Atlantic Ocean, the Porto neighborhood where this residential block goes up corresponds to the area where the city grew beyond the medieval walls throughout the 18th century. The urban fabric in this zone is de
Boavista Avenue is the longest straight urban stretch in Portugal. It is five kilometers long and connects Rem Koolhaas’s Casa da Música, in the city center, with the Atlantic Ocean, to the west. The Burgo complex of offices and retail spaces goes up
The origins of the monastery of Santa Maria do Bouro, located some ten kilometers north of Braga, are dark and surrounded by legends as those of many other medieval monasteries. Apparently, already in 1162 and on this site on the left of the Cavado R
Housed in a rectangular block measuring eighty meters long and twenty wide, the Geological Sciences building is located in the Aveiro university campus. The urban plan for the campus foresaw a uniform image for the different schools, using exposed br
The building is located in the gardens of a neoclassical style house of the early 20th century in Porto. So as not to alter the historical identity of the precinct, the new structure occupies a perimeter position, replacing the enclosure wall with tw
An old farm on a hill, close to the center of Braga, was the terrain chosen for the construction of the Municipal Market of Carandá: a linear building whose footprint rested on two perpendicular paths that linked the complex with the city, occupying
The novelist, columnist and poet Miguel Torga – pen name of Adolf Correia da Rocha –, is one of the most important of the 20th century. This cultural center wants to be an institution of reference in the study and dissemination of his literary oeuvre
