Architects: Risco (Manuel Salgado, Jorge Estriga e Joana Pinheiro)
Architecture Team: Inês Cruz, Joana Pinheiro, Rute Gonçalves, Moisés Rosa, Alexandra Fock, Neuza Pereira e José Carlos Monteiro.
Client: Futebol Clube do Porto
Engineering: Triagonal, OHM, RGA, AZ Consultores, Natural Works e Action Modulers
Date: 2006 – 2009
Area: 13 900 m2
Cost: 11 723 000€
Photos: FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura (www.ultimasreportagens.com)

Description from the Architect:

The site, which is irregular in shape, is actually the left-over of a network of road infrastructures. The construction of the pavilion is particularly important in urban terms, because it closes the eastern edge of the Antas Detailed Development Plan. Read the rest of this entry »

Architects: Ezzo
Location: Felgueiras, Portugal
Architect in Charge: César Machado Moreira
Collaborators: Fátima Barroso, Hugo Torres, Carla Barbosa
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 200 sqm
Photographs: Joao Ferrand

It’s a project for a rural hotel located in a farm with 10 hectares of land, 90% of which are used as vineyards. The interior of the land contains various previously existent elements. The main building from the XVI century stands out and several little constructions which are very damaged and/or ruins (the house of the home keepers, the pet store and kitchen). Read the rest of this entry »

Architect: RISCO (Manuel Salgado, Joao Almeida eTomás Salgado)
Interiors: FSSMGN (Fernando Sanchez Salvador e Margarida Grácio Nunes)
Graphics: RMAC Design
Illustration: Alexandre Mendes, Ana Cunha, João Pina, Jorge Oliveira e Pedro Duarte
Landscape Architect: NPK
Location: Doca do Bom Sucesso, Belém, Lisbon
Client: Altis SA
Year: 1999-2009
Area: 9 086,4 m2
Cost: 12 000 000 €
Photography: FG + SG // Fotografia de Arquitectura

Located on the Atlantic Coast, Lisbon is the largest city and capital of Portugal. This alpha city is considered one of the most important financial and economic centers in the Iberian Peninsula. Lisbon is rich in history and culture and it has always celebrated their most precious resource, its beautiful coastline. As this region is the wealthiest and well above European Union’s GDP average it has an extensive array of modern and luxurious projects unfolding. Read the rest of this entry »

Project: Winery Casa da Torre
Client: Manuel Sousa Lopes
Location: Louro – Vila Nova de Famalicão – Portugal
Architecture: Carlos Castanheira & Clara Bastai, Arqtos Lda.
Team: Orlando Sousa
Consultancies: Paulo Fidalgo, Eng. Civil
HDP Gabinete Projectos. Engenharia Civil, Lda.
Project Date: 2008-2009
Photography: Fernando Guerra FG + SG – Fotografia de Arquitectura

Portuguese architects Castanheira & Bastai have designed the Adega Casa da Torre, a winery in Louro, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal.

Description of Adega Casa da Torre by Carlos Castanheira

A winery is no longer what it used to be. I once knew wineries where cobwebs and dust, were the sign of time passing and of the times. Time was also, almost always, the sign of quality, as the wine that got preserved over time, at the time, was good wine, which got even better after being left there for a few years. Read the rest of this entry »