CUMN, António Nóbrega University Center
The house number 4 of Rua Almeida Garrett in Coimbra, is located in a central area of the city: near the Praça da República, next to the park of Quinta de Santa Cruz, now known as Jardim das Sereias, and over which the main façade leans with the uniqueness that characterizes it. The Manuel da […]
Andresen House and Franz Koepp Greenhouses
The Andresen House is a unique building in its architecture and exceptional in its interior space, natural lighting, scale and relationship with its surroundings – the Porto Botanical Garden. It is located in Rua do Campo Alegre – an old road parallel to the Douro River that connected the city centre to the sea, and […]
Rehabilitation of a building by Marques da Silva
* O prédio da Rua Alexandre Braga, propriedade da Fundação Instituto Marques da Silva (FIMS) e projectado pelo arquitecto José Marques da Silva no ano de 1923 foi construído entre 1925 e 1928. Trata-se de um edifício que o arquitecto edificou para rendimento tendo no seu desenvolvimento soluções formais distintas para o mesmo programa. […]
Rehabilitation of the Contumil Neighbourhood, blocks 5A e 6A
The rehabilitation of the surroundings and common areas of blocks 4, 5A and 6A of the Contumil neighbourhood is part of a wider operation to rehabilitate the existing municipal housing stock in Porto. The three blocks shown were built between 1977 and 1980 and rehabilitated between 2010 and 2015. The main objective of the work […]
Albergues Nocturnos do Porto
The building of the centenary Associação dos Albergues Nocturnos do Porto is located in Rua Mártires da Liberdade, in the centre of Porto. The building, despite not being classified, brings together numerous architectural values, linked to its urban integration, construction system, interior spatiality, the quality of its decorative elements and, naturally, the value of the […]
Rua de Belos Ares House
Project for the rehabilitation of a bourgeois house from Oporto from the beginning of the 20th century, which was in a reasonable state of conservation. It was possible to recover and integrate numerous values (compartmentalisation, openings, construction system, coverings, etc.), correcting anomalies and bad interventions carried out over time. The most (or less) visible intervention […]
Salabert House, new e-learning cafe at the Botanical Garden
Salabert House is located in Porto’s Botanical Garden and was one of the first buildings inside the original farm. In the successive processes of adaptation to the new programmes, Salabert House has undergone several alterations and extensions that have profoundly transformed it, removing elements of architectural value. Some constructive components remained from the original construction, […]
Passeio Alegre House
Rehabilitation of Mercado do Bolhão
The listing as “monument of public interest” attributed by Portaria 613/2013 of September the 20th to Mercado do Bolhão, recognizes heritage value to two inseparable dimensions – the uniqueness of the Beaux Arts building and its function as a traditional market. The intervention to the 1914-1917’s building and market, originally designed by architect António Correia […]
Quinta do Bom Pastor Palace
The intervention in an ensemble such as Quinta do Bom Pastor, the result of different periods and uses, requires a detailed assessment of values, taking into account the specific nature of each pre-existing building, the potential of its interconnection and the inevitable enjoyment of the surrounding landscape quality. The programme for the headquarters of the […]