In 2011, the Oceanário de Lisboa, one of the world’s largest aquariums located within the Portuguese Parque das Nações (Expo 1998), significantly grew: it received
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Construir Junto
Designing, building, testing, rethinking, maybe rebuilding, and, finally, using it – a lively process, thought in a multidisciplinary, collective, local, and social manner. The project
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Casa das Histórias Paula Rego Museum
The eyecatching colour and form of this building was built by the Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. With this glaring red museum nearby Lisboa
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Biblioteca Municipal de Ílhavo
About the transformation of a chapel into a library in Portugal and the special treatment of old structures by the architects José und Nuno Mateus
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Interni Mutant Architecture & Design
At the this year’s Fuori Salone – Milans public event on showing highlights of architecture and design – design culture shall take place on the streets,
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Teatro Municipal Almada
Manuel Graça Dias + Egas José Vieira arquitectos from Contemporânea Ltd. based in Braga, Portugal, built the Teatro Municipal de Almada in cooperation with Gonçalo
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Archeological Museum
From 2008 to 2010 the Portuguese architects Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos built a museum for the remains of the Castle of São Jorge. A fascinating
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Chapel in Netos
An altar in the window: an extravagant chapel in the west of Portugal shows how sacred architecture adapts to modern developments. The building-type of chapels
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Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
At the coast of the Portuguese city Cascais lies the Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum: the former fortification was reconstructed by Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus. An
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Portugal Pavilion Expo 1998
Architect Alvaro Siza Vieira planned a huge rooftop for the Expo 1998 in Lisboa. The concrete sculpture is still an architectural highlight of the city.
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