Santa Catarina Apartments, Porto, northern Portugal

Santa Catarina Apartments Porto Portugal refurbishment

The Santa Catarina house dates from the early twentieth century and belongs to a terrace of four in in Porto, northern Portugal. Six metres of street frontage the plot that widens as it leaves the street. It was built for one family, with a walled garden behind which it stood empty. It has now been refurbished by OODA and turned into apartments

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Casa Colinas, Vilamour, southern Portugal

Casa Colinas Vilamour southern Portugal house

The Data designed Casa Colinas is a private residence located in Vilamoura, in Portugal‘s Algarve region. Set on a plot overlooking the golf course, the house explores the relationship between privacy, light and landscape through a sequence of carefully carved spaces

Casa da Azenha, Sobral De Monte Agraço, Lisbon

Casa da Azenha Sobral De Monte Agraço Lisbon Portugal

Casa da Azenha, Portugal, is the conservation and adaptive reuse of the ruins of a former watermill into a private dwelling. Developed by (umtodo) in response to the client’s brief, the intervention is confined to the existing footprint of the ruin, preserving the historic structure while inserting a new volume within it

Chaves House, Vila Real, Portugal home

Chaves House Vila Real Portugal home

Chaves House is not only a response to a place—it is a mediation between architecture and nature. NOARQ saw the site’s fragility as a design opportunity, turning a seemingly unbuildable plot into a home that hovers lightly above the earth. Its form is born from respect: for water, for light, and for the land it inhabits in Portugal

Blue House in Marvila, Lisbon home design

Blue House in Marvila, Lisbon home design

Blue House in Marvila, Lisbon, Portugal design by extrastudio – arquitectura, urbanismo e design lda. Shaped in a time of uncertainty, yet refusing to compromise on scale, the series of three homes were stripped down to the essentials, acquiring an unexpected, raw, and intense character.

Melides House, Grandola, Setúbal property

Melides House Grandola Portugal home car

Sabrab Architecture’s main challenge with Casa M Ariane was to create a large residence that would not impose itself upon the site. Carefully positioned among centuries-old cork oak trees and gently following the natural topography, the house was designed to blend seamlessly into the landscape in Grandola, Portugal

House PV, São João do Estoril, Portugal home

House PV, São João do Estoril, Portugal home

Located in São João do Estoril, Portugal, House PV, by Nuno Nascimento Arquitectos, transforms an existing residential building. Rather than preserving or replacing it, the ambition was to uncover a new order capable of reconciling these accumulated layers into a single architectural presence

Exhale Townhouse, Lisbon, Portugal home

Exhale Townhouse Lisbon Portugal home interior

McLean Quinlan has completed Exhale Townhouse, a comprehensive renovation of a townhouse in Lisbon, Portugal, for a couple and their young children, transforming the once sterile, poorly configured property into a cohesive family home designed around wellbeing