Latest news and stories about architecture in Portugal for expats and residents.
Society has learned to listen to lawyers, economists, engineers, and doctors. But when it comes to cities, people often talk about everything except architecture. A column by Daniela Silva.
The Lisbon Cathedral has been officially recognised as one of the seven architectural wonders of Portugal.
It is necessary to go beyond construction: architects are not designing spaces, but rather experiences.
It opened its doors in 1959, becoming a symbol of a country that wanted to open itself to tourism and modernise. The architectural project is by Pardal Monteiro, but it was joined by great names from the arts.
The museum will be “an important vehicle for the city's cultural development,” with several countries involved. The expectation is to strengthen “cultural exchange” between China and the West.
The news was announced this Tuesday by the Marques da Silva Foundation, to whom Fernão Simões de Carvalho donated his collection in 2021. He was one of three Portuguese people to intern at Le Corbusier's studio.
Better Place has become a member of the Studio Alliance network in Portugal.
An exploration of unfinished architectural projects and the Duke's Palace in Portugal.
The Setúbal School of Education is a candidate in the New 7 Wonders of Portugal competition.
When he dives into the semi-darkness of the Lisbon Oceanarium, he moves like a fish in the sea. Almost three decades after designing that artificial island for Expo’98, he still seems dazzled by the work he created — or perhaps more by what it contains. For the American architect Peter Chermayeff, an aquarium was never just a building: it is architecture, design, cinema, engineering, and wildlife in motion.
Didier Fiúza Faustino and Marie-Hélène Fabre have created a collection of vinyl records featuring the sounds of cities and their architects. Souto de Moura and Dominique Perrault have already spoken for the recorder.
The author of the National Library of France explains his groundscape architecture. A conversation about urbanism, the differences between building in Europe and Asia, and architecture as a “common good”.
The Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes) opened a competition today to select, from three proposals, the team and project that will represent Portugal at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale, with funding of 500,000 euros available.
The Directorate-General for the Arts has launched the application process for the 2027 Architecture Biennale.
The selected proposals are from Alice Clanet-Hallard, Edgar Brito, Francisco Lobo and Romea Muryn; Joanna Alice Helm, Remígio Van Eyes Chilaule and Samuel de Brito Gonçalves; and Helena Botelho
Empty churches, deconsecrated temples. These collective meeting places are disappearing. The future of these central buildings in European neighbourhoods is the theme of the biennial, which can be visited until October.
The book 'O Bairro do Pego Longo' recounts the history of a neighbourhood in the Sintra municipality that joined the SAAL programme and ceased to be precarious and illegal, with a significant contribution from Bartolomeu Costa Cabral.
It is possible that by today the 25 de Abril Bridge has already surpassed half of its lifespan, but as long as its twin, the Golden Gate Bridge, remains standing, there is hope. Linked by their architecture, the American bridge is three decades older. The ochre bridge built between the Alcântara valley in Lisbon and the...
Architects Michael Ingui and Lloyd Alter have been confirmed as speakers for the 14th edition of the Passivhaus Portugal Conference.
“I am more of an artist than an architect,” says José Manuel Carvalho Araújo, an “architect-poet” who even imagines his works at the end of their life cycle. “In design, I think of myself; in architecture, I think of others.”
If the partnership between the Order of Architects and ANA bears fruit, it is not just the Lisbon airport taking shape, but the way of thinking about major national projects that is changing.
Designed by Viviane Cunha, who maintains bases in the Portuguese capital and Rio de Janeiro, Casa Itajubá was named Platinum Winner of the 2026 Houzee Awards while the project was still in progress.
He dreamed of being a painter in Lisbon, but became an architect trained in Porto. He stayed in the North, always practicing architecture in connection with other arts, not without some controversy along the way.
A transformation of a dilapidated property in northern Portugal into a stunning residence, highlighting one of the most remarkable architectural rehabilitations.
