NEWS
20-03-2019
Francesco Venezia receives the Piranesi Prix de Rome for lifetime achievement
The Piranesi Prix de Rome for Lifetime Achievement was presented to Francesco Venezia at...
19-03-2019
Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana wins the 2019 Young Architects Program
The project entered by the team Pedro & Juana under the guidance of architects Ana Paula...
Architecture and materials
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Livegreen
20-03-2019
The Bejing Today Art Museum showcases the artwork of Wu Guanzhen
Wu Guanzhen is an up-and-coming Chinese artist who uses the ancient technique of lacquering to create works that combine traditional craftsmanship with a contemporary interpretation...
19-03-2019
Pecka Playscape, learning while having fun outdoors
Pecka Playscape is the fusion of a playground, sculpture park and educational trail...
THE ARCHITECT SERIES
The Architects Series - a documentary on: Weiss/Manfredi
2019 begins with a new event in The Architects Series, the exhibition...
PROJECTS
Projects
Harquitectes: Civic centre in the former Cristalleries Planell, Barcelona
The former Cristalleries Planell artistic glassworks in Barcelona is now the home of a civic centre...
Architectural Solutions
Brick, copper and timber make up Mecanoo’s Open Air Museum
Mecanoo’s Open Air Museum is a brick and timber building that invites visitors to discover the...
Ceramic Innovation
Maxi-slabs inspired by cements, resins and metals: Hi Lite by Iris Ceramica
Iris Ceramica’s Hi Lite maxi-slabs are an Italian design solution perfect for underlining the...
Projects
H&P Architects’ AgriNesture in Vietnam
H&P Architects’s AgriNesture is a low-cost housing project which is easily repeatable and...
Architectural Solutions
L’Hospice Djursland di C.F. Møller, rivestito in rovere
C.F. Møller’s Djursland Hospice is a semi-circular building covered in oak wood, embracing...
Ceramic Innovation
Decorating and customising spaces: DYS technology on Fiandre ceramic slabs
DYS - Design Your Slab is an innovative complete on-demand decorating service for Fiandre ceramic...
Projects
EFFEKT: Streetmekka Viborg
In an unused factory belonging to the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas in Viborg, EFFEKT...
Architectural Solutions
The concrete domes of JKMM’s Amos Rex in Helsinki
The new underground museum near Amos Rex shopping centre designed by JKMM remodels the square using...
Ceramic Innovation
Porcelaingres outdoor surface coverings: stone, cement and wood effects
The Porcelaingres range of ceramic surfaces for residential and public open-air spaces is growing...
Architetti
Mário Martins
Mário Martins was born in Lagos, Algarve – Portugal in 1964, and graduated in 1988 from the Architecture Faculty of Lisbon Technical University. He worked for about one year in the architectural practice of Manuel Graça Dias and Egas José Vieira, and occasionally with the architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça. At the end of 1988 he decided to return to Lagos, setting up Oblíqua Arquitectos with the architect Vítor Lourenço, with whom he developed many projects before the partnership ended in 2000. Since then, through the company Mário Martins Atelier with Maria José Rio (his business partner and wife), he has continued to focus exclusively on architecture, assisted by his enormously dedicated and hard-working team. With a contemporary style influenced by the place in which he mainly works – Algarve – his projects have undergone a natural process of evolving and maturing ....
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18-03-2019
Alessandro Melis is appointed curator of the Italian Pavilion in the Architecture Exhibition at Biennale di Venezia
Minister of Culture Alberto Bonisoli announced on March 8 that architect Alessandro Melis...
15-03-2019
Robert Konieczny Moving Architecture exhibition in Berlin
Tomorrow, March 15, an exhibition of the work of Polish architect Robert Konieczny opens...
14-03-2019
Rural Moves – The Songyang Story exhibition at the Vienna Architekturzentrum
The exhibition "Rural Moves - The Songyang Story" opening on March 13 at the...