Tag Archives: Portugal

Pedestrian bridge over Ribeira da Carpinteira

João Luís Carrilho da Graça (born 1952, in Portalegre, Portugal) graduated from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts (Portuguese: Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa) in 1977 and lectured at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon between 1977 and 1992. Since 2001, he has been a guest lecturer at the […]

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PT’s Data Center Covilhã – Carrilho da Graça

Architect Carrilho da Graça speaks about the project of PT’s Data Center in Covilhã post by portugaltelecom

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Sensing Spaces: Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura

As an accompaniment to their ongoing Sensing Spaces Exhibition in London, the Royal Academy of Arts has produced six wonderful films interviewing the architects involved in the exhibition, unearthing what motivates and inspires them as architects, and what the primary themes of their exhibition projects are. post by Royal Academy of Arts The above video features […]

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Portugal Pavilion at the Expo ’98, Lisbon, Portugal

Portugal pavilion at the Expo ’98, Lisbon World Exposition, Portugal. Designed by architect Álvaro Siza. 1998. Soundtrack excerpt ‘Carmen’ by Egberto Gismonti. post by Pedro Kok Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, is a Portuguese architect, and Architectural educator, born 25 June 1933 in Matosinhos a small coastal town by Porto. He is […]

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Casa Esmeriz by Projecto Cosimo (Portugal)

Video Βy ARCHMOV. The concept of a house is usually related to the function of shelter/home but it also includes a socio/cultural exercise of a specific community. This house is definitely that place where we act as urban individuals protected from time. It is a polyvalent space that articulates an administrative area with another one […]

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Plataforma das Artes by Pitágoras Arquitectos (Portugal)

By Archmov: With this project, the transformation of the marketplace into a multifunctional space dedicated to artistic, economic, cultural and social activities within the scope of European Capital of Culture 2012, allowed for the physical and functional reintegration into the urban fabric, to become a reality and so, to recover one key area of the city […]

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A Cozinha da Casa do Vapor Portugal

A Cozinha da Casa do Vapor is a collateral project of the Casa do Vapor project, based in Cova do Vapor. [Steam House] is an assemblage of core elements and satellite projects by different people and groups created by members of EXYZT, the Associação de Moradores da Cova and many more. Cova do Vapor is […]

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Dune House in Portugal

We visit the home of Portuguese architect Luis Pereira Miguel who has built his dream home in Grandola on Portugal’s Atlantic coast. The 250-square-meter house looks a little bit like a bunker, and it was built so that the house is built into surrrounding dunes. Thus, depending on how the dunes are formed from year […]

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Eduardo Souto de Moura speech

Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura studied sculpture and architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Porto and worked with several firms in Portugal before forming his own office in 1980. His early work is often called “miesian” for its precisely aligned stone and glass planes and sharp rectangular volumes; his later studies in chiseled […]

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Nursing Home

Finalist European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – mies van der Rohe Award 2013. by FundacioMies   Nursing Home Lar de Idosos em Alcácer do Sal Alcácer do Sal, Portugal Aires Mateus Francisco Aires Mateus, Manuel Aires Mateus http://www.airesmateus.com

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