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16-06-2021

Bureau: Dodged House, a home for an architect, Lisbon

Seeking to combine a Portuguese essence with a modernist feel, Daniel Zamarbide from architecture firm Bureau has designed Dodged House - the renovation of a four-floor apartment - for his family in the neighbourhood of Mouraria, Lisbon.

03-03-2021

BUREAU and MARIA, a dynamic home

BUREAU architectural studio designed MARIA: an apartment that adapts to the owner’s multiple and dynamic requirements with an overall design that differs from all the classic schemes, to be lived in as freely as possible and become a prototype of contemporary living.

03-02-2021

Winners of the 2020 Architecture Drawing Prize

The Architecture Drawing Prize is part of a circuit of events linked with the World Architecture Festival. The fourth edition of the prize, an expression of the timeless fascination of architectural drawing, now has a new category: the Lockdown Prize. The winner is Clement Laurencio for Apartment #5, which also won the Hybrid category.

16-10-2020

Aurora Arquitectos: Residence in Rua Bartolomeu Dias, Lisbon

Designed by Aurora Arquitectos, the residence in Rua Bartolomeu Dias, Lisbon demonstrates that, despite the gentrification the city is now undergoing, private initiatives can meet its demand for housing and make a significant contribution to urban redevelopment.

09-09-2020

Bak Gordon: House in rua Costa do Castelo, Lisbon

Deeply rooted in its site - the hill beneath São Jorge Castle in Lisbon - this home in rua Costa do Castelo is one of Ricardo Bak Gordon’s most interesting residential projects. The Portuguese architect’s design brings together two types of building: an apartment and an urban villa.

28-08-2020

Contacto Atlântico’s Liberdade 40: renovating according to local tradition

Contacto Atlântico, a Portuguese architectural practice based in Estoril, renovated a twelve-floor building on Lisbon’s famous Avenida da Liberdade. The building, which used to contain offices and was covered entirely with glass, is now Liberdade 40: a luxury residential complex containing seventeen apartments of different sizes redesigned by Contacto Atlântico on the basis of the zero-kilometre philosophy, with a passive ventilation system and a truly Portuguese identity

16-08-2019

Denise Scott Brown wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale

The Lisbon Architecture Triennale jury presents the Lifetime Achievement Award to architect Denise Scott Brown, and reveals the finalists for the Début and Universities Awards. The 5th Triennale, curated by architect and theorist Éric Lapierre, will take place in the Portuguese capital from October 3 to December 2, 2019.

08-06-2018

Álvaro Siza Viagem Sem Programa exhibition in Lisbon

The exhibition about great architect Álvaro Siza curated by Raul Betti and Greta Ruffino in Lisbon’s Atelier Aires Mateus has been extended until June 18. Focusing on the famous architect’s intimate, private side, the exhibition was first presented in the summer of 2017 at FAB Fiandre Architectural Bureau Castellarano.