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30-11-2022
WAF 2022 begins in Lisbon with Floornature and the Iris Ceramica Group
The World Architecture Festival and INSIDE World Festival of Interiors begin today in Lisbon, continuing until 2 December 2022. The world-wide event for architecture is back in the Portuguese capital again, after the 2021 edition. Floornature and the Iris Ceramica Group are involved in two competitions: The Architecture Drawing Prize and The Architectural Photography Awards.

07-10-2022
Terra, 6th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Last weekend the 6th edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, curated by Cristina Verissimo and Diogo Burnay, opened its doors to the public. The theme chosen for this edition is Terra, a clear reference to the fact that we, a multitude of different realities, all live on one and the same planet. The Triennale aims to be a call-to-action, as well as to illustrate the multiplicity of methodologies available to face current and future challenges with architecture.

15-09-2022
Waiting for WAF 2022 Special Awards Finalists.
In anticipation of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) to be held in Lisbon, November 30-December 2, 2022, the finalist projects for the Special Awards were recently revealed. These are architectural projects that have been shortlisted for the WAF Awards and which stand out in particular for certain features or materials used to make them, in addition to the best small-scale project and two new special awards.

31-08-2022
Marina Tabassum wins Lifetime Achievement Award Millennium bcp Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Under the title Earth, the Lisbon Architecture Triennial 2022, in its sixth edition, features a vast geographical diversity from both hemispheres. In the run-up to the opening on 29 September, the international jury was asked to select the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, choosing architect, researcher and educator Marina Tabassum from Dhaka.

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.

26-07-2021
The finalists for the 2021 World Building of the Year and Landscape of the Year awards
The list of finalists has been announced for the 2021 World Building of the Year and Landscape of the Year awards, prestigious prizes awarded during the World Architecture Festival coming up in Lisbon December 1 through 3, 2021 under the title: Resetting the City: Greening, Health and Urbanism. The competition is open to architecture and landscape projects completed all over the world in the past two years, and the shortlisted projects include works by B.I.G. Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners, Rafael Viñoly Architects, Grimshaw Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).

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.