Portuguese architecture designs, Buildings architects, Portugal property development news
Portuguese Architecture
Key Property Developments + Buildings in Portugal, Western Europe. Modern built environment designs images.
post updated 26 January 2026
e-architect try to select the best examples of Portuguese Architecture. We cover completed buildings in Portugal but also new building designs. We focus on contemporary Portuguese buildings.
Arquitetura Portuguesa
We have 5 pages of Portuguese Architecture selections.
Architecture in Portugal
Modern Portuguese Architecture : main page with news + key new buildings (this page)
Portuguese Architecture Designs : A-C
Portuguese Architecture Developments : D-G
Portuguese Building Developments : H-I
Portuguese Building Designs : J-O
Portuguese Buildings : P-Z
Porto Architecture Walking Tours
Porto Architecture Walking Tours – architectural walks by e-architect
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Latest Portuguese Building Designs
Portuguese Architecture Designs – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
24 November 2025
C – Cultura e Criatividade, Penafiel
Architect: Galeria Gabinete
photo : Ivo Tavares Studio
11 November 2025
Casa DR, Meia-Via, Torres Novas
Architects: NMDARQ
6 November 2025
Pasteis de Belem, Lisbon Bakery
Architecture: Viterbo Interior Design Ateliers
photo : Francisco Almeida Dias
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28 Mar 2016
Polytechnic Institute of Beja School of Technology
Design: Nuno Montenegro Arquitecto Lda
photo : Fernando Guerra [FG+SG]
The portico structure arises from the combination of the two programmatic requirements. The need to create a corporate iconic image, and the inclusion of a set of amphitheatres.
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3 Oct 2013
House of the Arts, Miranda do Corvo, central Portugal
Design: Future Architecture Thinking (FAT)
photograph : Joao Morgado
The sloping roofs of this building establish a dialogue with the geometry of the mountain landscape, in an analogy to the village rooftops. The dynamism achieved through the continuity between façades and roof is accentuated by a strong red colour, emphasizing its design and highlighting the building through the surrounding landscaped area vegetation.
6 Aug 2013
Cultural Center of Viana do Castelo, north west Portugal
Design: Souto Moura Arquitectos
photograph : Joao Morgado – Architecture Photography
Cultural Center of Viana do Castelo
Like a low-level Pompidou Centre with the colour taken out. Eduardo Souto de Moura is a difficult architect to pin down – and that is a good thing. Look at the massive difference between say the highly expressive Estadio Municipal de Braga and the sensitive restoration of Bernardas Convent in Tavira.
19 Jul 2013
Municipal Library Setúbal
Design: Jordana Tomé + Filipe Oliveira + Vitor Quaresma
image from architects
Municipal Library Setúbal
1 Jul 2013
Porto Bakery, Gondomar
Architects: Paulo Merlini arquitectura
photograph : Joao Morgado
Porto Bakery Building
5 Jun 2013
Mouriz School Center, Paredes, northern Portugal
Design: CNLL
photo : Fernando Guerra
Mouriz School Center
10 Apr 2013
Bernardas Convent Reconversion, Tavira, south east Portugal
Design: Souto Moura Arquitectos
photos : Luis Ferreira Alves
Bernardas Convent Reconversion
The restoration of the Convento das Bernardas is based on the construction of a resort with 78 residences. The architecture design is divided into two types of intervention, with new construction work and the recovery of the existing building.
20 Feb 2013
Volunteer Firefighters Barracks, Santo Tirso, Portugal
Design: Álvaro Siza Vieira
photo : Joao Morgado
Volunteer Firefighters Barracks
31 Jan 2013
House for Elderly People in Alcácer do Sal, near Lisbon, southern Portugal
Design: Aires Mateus Arquitectos
picture : FG SG
House for Elderly People, Alcácer do Sal
Mies van der Rohe Awards 2013 – Shortlisted building news
16 Jan 2013
L´and Vineyards, Alentejo, south eastern Portugal
Interiors: studio mk27 – marcio kogan + diana radomysler + suzana glogowski
Architecture: Promontorio
photo : Fernando Guerra
L´and Vineyards
Five world-renowned architects have lent their work to the award-winning project, bringing a distinct personality to each of the resort’s seven clusters, with modern architecture that reinterprets traditional Mediterranean design.
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Portugal Architecture Design
Contemporary Portugal Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
12 Dec 2012
Veterinary Hospital, Portugal
Design: deMM arquitectura
photo : Pedro Lobo
Veterinary Hospital
24 Aug 2012
U House, Ericeira, western Portugal
Design: Jorge Graça Costa
photograph : Fernando Guerra, FG + SG
U House
A sustainable House for a Professional Surfer
The U House located in Ericeira, a World Surfing Reserve, was designed for José Gregório three times national Surf champion and a well known big wave rider, his wife and two daughters. This 300 Square meter house occupies a big lot, surrounded by a dense mesh of trees, on top of a hill overlooking Saint Lorenzo Bay.
20 Aug 2012
San Lorenzo North Villa, Quinta do Lago, The Algarve, south west Portugal
Design: Imaestri
image from developer
In addition to Quinta do Lago celebrating 40 years of continued success this year, they have launched their final 26 plots for sales in the San Lorenzo enclave of the resort. This crisply designed contemporary house represents the development as a show villa.
12 Jul 2012
Platforma Artes Guimarães, northern Portugal
Pitágoras Architects
photograph : Joao Morgado
Platforma Artes Guimarães
9 Jul 2012
Ovar House
Design: Paula Santos Arquitectos
photograph : Nelson Garrido
Ovar House
The house at Ovar, Portugal, is an exercise where the architect office stretched to the limit a number of ideas and concepts for a long time already contained in other projects, which had never been put in place. It is also – and above all – a project, which allows for thinking with other people about their own way of inhabiting a dwelling.
2 May 2012
Vidago Palace Spa, Porto
Álvaro Siza Vieira
photo : Nelson Garrido
Vidago Palace Spa
Latest building by Pritzker Prize winning architect Álvaro Siza Vieira: in stark contrast to the main building’s Belle Epoque opulence, The Spa is a minimalist oasis of clean lines and white marble.
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Portuguese Buildings – Major Designs
Key Architecture Developments in Portugal, alphabetical:
Carlos Ramos Pavilion
Álvaro Siza Vieira
photo : Nelson Garrido
Carlos Ramos Pavilion Porto
Casa da Música, Oporto
Rem Koolhaas Architects
photo : Phillipe Ruault
Casa da Musica
Casa Dos Cubos, Tomar
E M B A I X A D A
photo : DMF
Casa Dos Cubos
Casa Possanco, near Lisbon
ARX Portugal
photo : FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura
Casa Possanco
The Champalimaud Foundation
Charles Correa Associates with RMJM
image from architects
Lisbon Research Center
Church of Marco de Canaveses
Alvaro Siza Vieira
photo from Alvaro Siza
Church of Marco de Canaveses
Habitable Sculpture, Lisbon
Miguel Arruda architect
image : FG+SG-Fotografia de Arquitectura
Habitable Sculpture
House II in Aroeira Caparica
ARX Portugal Arquitectos
photo : FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura
Living Foz – apartment building, Oporto
dEMM arquitectura
image from architect
Living Foz
Olive Oil Factory, southern Portugal
Ricardo Bak Gordon
photo : FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
Olive Oil Factory Marmelo Mill
Palácio de Justiça de Gouveia
Barbosa & Guimaraes
photo : José Campos, architectural photography
Palácio de Justiça de Gouveia
Vodafone Building, Porto
Barbosa & Guimarães
image © Barbosa & Guimarães
Vodafone Building
More Portuguese Architecture online soon.
Location: Portugal, southwest Europe.
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Arquitetura portuguesa : Lisboa
Oporto Architecture Competition
Alvaro Siza : Alvaro Siza
Note – Oporto is often translated as Porto in English, similarly Lisboa as Lisbon
Comments / photos for the Modern Portuguese Architecture Designs page welcome.