Portugal Vineyards Concept Store, When Architecture Meets Wine ♦ The Portugal Vineyards wine concept store is the first physical store for the online wine specialist company. Located adjacent to the company’s headquarters, facing the street and occupying 90m2, the store consists of an open-plan devoid of partitions. Secrets From Portugal is thrilled to let you […]
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TOUR A COLOURFUL LISBON APARTMENT WITH GLOBALLY-INSPIRED FLAIR
TOUR A COLOURFUL LISBON APARTMENT WITH GLOBALLY-INSPIRED FLAIR ♦ Two years ago, the apartment of Filipa de Abreu’s dreams nearly slipped through her fingers. She had underbid both the asking price and an aggressive French overbidder on a century-old four-bedroom rental in Lisbon’s coveted Lapa neighborhood. Its 12-foot-high ceilings, crown mouldings, and boiserie-detailed walls had […]
Inside A Portuguese Home With Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2020
Inside A Portuguese Home With Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2020 ♦ American brand Pantone has announced that the Colour of the Year 2020 is Classic Blue, also known as Pantone 19-4052! Suggestive of the sky at dusk, the reassuring qualities of the thought-provoking Pantone 19-4052 Classic Blue highlight our desire for a dependable and […]
Best Architecture Projects: Discover Agrela House by Spaceworkers
Best Architecture Projects: Discover Agrela House by Spaceworkers ♦ Secrets From Portugal brings you all about this amazing project, a simetria vertical project that started back in 2014 and was made for being a house for books. This challenge started with a premise from the client: space for many books. Immediately, our imaginary guided us […]
Casa Altinho Overlooks Lisbon Waterfront With Nestin Volumes Of Delicate Brickwork
Casa Altinho Overlooks Lisbon Waterfront With Nestin Volumes Of Delicate Brickwork ♦ Antonio Costa Lima Arquitectos presents Casa Altinho, a project marked by its minimal, nesting geometries and expressive materiality. With consideration for its context, the house is named for its altitude — situated along the waterfront of Lisbon overlooking both the river and the […]
Portuguese Architect, Siza Vieira, Built A Tower In New York
Portuguese Architect, Siza Vieira, Built A Tower In New York ♦ Due to the narrow site, the Portuguese architect has designed the condominium to rise 450 feet (137 metres), which he admits is fairly short in comparison to other high-rises in the city. The 37-storey tower comprises two volumes, with a larger block forming the […]
Best Architecture Projects: Lisbon Wood Residential Building
Best Architecture Projects: Lisbon Wood Residential Building ♦ The Lisbon Wood project arises from the complete rehabilitation, with expansion, of an existing building, built in the ’70s, located at Av. António Augusto de Aguiar, one of Lisbon’s main avenues. It has in its functional program 2 commercial spaces and 15 apartments from T0 to T4. […]
Best Architecture Projects: Discover Michelango Inspiration In A Lisbon Atelier
Best Architecture Projects: Discover Michelango Inspiration In A Lisbon Atelier ♦ In this building, the studio space of architect Manuel Aires Mateus, bourgeois urban characteristics of the late 18th and 19th centuries are recognized. This project is a restoration, which in addition to the workspace also opens doors to an exhibition space, reaffirming a sharing […]
Discover The Minimalistic Architecture Of This Lisbon House
Discover The Minimalistic Architecture Of This Lisbon House ♦ The concept for this house emerges from a reflection on the identity of Lisbon architecture, with a small garden in the back. This five-storey building has two radically different elevations: one in white lioz limestone (the most used in the city) and the one in the […]
Discover The Minimalist Design of the Triangular House in Lisbon
Discover The Minimalist Design of the Triangular House in Lisbon ♦ The plot geometry and its small size, 47m2, assume special importance in the typology and form of the programmatic distribution of space in this triangular house in Lisbon. It has one program per floor: Floor 0 – studio, Floor 1 – Living and dining, […]