Nomad Living - een container Guest House - Studio Arte (2014)

De onlangs overleden architect Nuno Portas (1934-2025) was een van de invloedrijkste architecten in Portugal op het gebied van architectuur en stedenbouw.

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Overzicht Osaka Expo 1970

Video van de derde (en laatste) Architectuurtour in Olhão, georganiseerd ter gelegenheid van de fototentoonstelling *MODERNISM IN TAVIRA*, gehouden van 16 februari tot 16 maart 2019 in Re-Criativa Rep...

*Arquitectura Popular em Portugal* is meer dan een boek.

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Het besef van vergankelijkheid, ook bij een feest als vasteloavend (carnaval) dringt pas tot me door nadat ik aan een aantal oude feestmakkers heb gemaild met de vraag of ze klaar zijn voor de veldsla...

3 Modernist (mid century) Vivendas: Luiza Maria, Luis Miguel & Maria Helena in Olhão. Nice details such as the overhanging roofs and a colored beam piercing a side wall with beautiful small openings t...

De Portugese cultuur wordt vooral bepaald door drie F’s. De F van Futebol (voetbal) , de F van Fatima (de kerk) en de F van Fado (Amalia Rodriges).

The tent landscape at the top of the Ria Shopping shopping center still exists, but unfortunately it has lost its function as a ‘Food Square'. As a cover for the food square, it had the appearance of ...

Sometimes striking buildings are getting lost when they have to make way for new real estate developments. Two special houses from the 1950s at the Quarteira beach by architect Manuel Laginha have made way for new constructions. But his apartment block 'Laginha e Seguro buildingon' the boulevard remains standing, next to the renowned Dom José Beach Hotel, which incorporated the first design for the then called Hotel/Restaurante 'Toca do Coelho' by architect Manuel Gomes da Costa.Boulevard from t

Three 'present' projects in Faro town of the talented young architect Philippe Paixão, who is also based in Faro with his office Corpo Atelier. In 2022 he was named one of the "20 most talented young...

BrutalismBrutalism is an architectural style that has seen a resurgence in recent years. Once criticized for its austere, sometimes harsh, and intimidating appearance, it is now increasingly appreciat...

Urban Ensemble Vává Avenidas de Roma e dos Estados Unidos da América, Alvalade - Lisbon - Portugal. Architects: Joaquim Bento de Almeida, Filipe Figueiredo & José SeguradoIn 1952, Filipe Figueiredo and José Segurado designed the intersection of the two main avenues in the Alvalade district with 4 large blocks of 13 floors, arranged perpendicularly and contrasting with the shape of the square that was foreseen in the plan.The functional program also indicated a typical "Housing Unit" solution: in

Some examples of geometric tile (azulejos) motifs in the 'Modernist Architecture' in the Algarve

The Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar I know mainly from the music video from his film 'Tacones Lejanos' (high heels). The immortal song 'Un Año de Amor' by singer Luz Casal is performed by actor Migu...

Two buildings on the Avenida da República in Olhão. The left building (Al-Hain), with brutalist features, was built in the 1980s when "metropolitan" thinking was approaching the old centre of Olhão and surpassed the church tower in height with 8 residential floors and two commercial floors.

These multifunctional social centers were established as part of a regional plan aimed at reducing child mortality in the Algarve. These facilities had a basic program that provided social assistance ...

Toen ik aan vrienden in de Algarve vertelde dat we van plan waren om naar naar het naastgelegen Huelva in Spanje te gaan, reageerden ze met de opmerking: 'Naar Huelva, die smerige industriestad?' Verb...

Av. da Republica / Rua Gil EanesBrutalist architecture emerged in post-war Europe as a form of solution to the post-war destruction and the lack of livable residential areas. Cheap, spacious, and easy...

The arrival of the sixteen-storey Edificio Tridente from 1979 in Faro was not without a struggle and was preceded by protests. Protests against the demolition of the 'Palácio da Família Lã', which had...

Municipal market Faro - 1953Architect Jorge Ribeiro de Oliveira was from 1943 the official technical adviser, appointed by the minister of public work Duarte Pacheco, for the Junta de Provincia do Al...