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09-03-2022

Ricardo Bak Gordon designs renovation and residential restoration in Porto - House 1

In Porto, Portugal, architect Ricardo Bak Gordon designed the renovation project for a villa built at the end of the 19th century. The original building was a bourgeois residence on four levels and situated within a plot of more than 2000 square metres near the waterfront. The restoration project has enhanced the existing spaces and proposed new functions for some of the environments.

12-11-2021

Bak Gordon: House 2 in Porto

Ricardo Bak Gordon’s House 2 in Porto is a garden pavilion adjacent and complementary to a nineteenth-century villa which ensures continuity between life outdoors and life in the house. The task of prolonging the rural experience inside the urban home is entrusted to the materials.

16-08-2021

Bak Gordon Arquitectos’ Ephemeral Architecture for Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon

The Bak Gordon architecture firm has been invited to design ephemeral, modular cork architecture for the event that Centro Cultural de Belém, together with Corticeira Amorim, organizes in the city of Lisbon every summer. The project is for a cork-built outdoor auditorium which occupies half the plaza of the Centro Cultural de Belém, adapting to its contours and also transforming the seating distancing signs, necessary to comply with health regulations in this pandemic time, into a design feature.

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.

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.

11-03-2020

Costa Lima: astrologist’s house in Estoril, Portugal

The astrologist’s house in Estoril by Antònio Costa Lima is a successful synthesis of opposed forces: dynamism and stability, closing and opening, discovery and protection. A walkway spirals around the garden, gradually rising to end on the rooftop terrace.