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Project • By Em Paralelo • Offices

Em Paralelo à varanda sobre a arquitetura

The memory of a space... The structure, the textures, the light... This new space was born out of the desire to have a new office that conveys our image as Em Paralelo architecture firm and the desire to pay homage to my father, Carlos Bernardino Maia Santos, who had already helped with the start of this new adventure. https://www.ivotavares.net/ The father who taught me to live in the intricacies of construction, who always told me how beautiful it would be to design, build and see "space born"... as if it were a child... The father who is not here today, but who proudly continues to be praised. A father to whom I say, thank you very much! And so it was, as a contractor... and today, albeit in a different way, but with great ten... More

Project • By LIMIT studio • Private Houses

Lapa

Lapa is located on the outskirts of Santo Tirso, in an old allotment, wedged between the Ave River and the train line to the east, and the national road to the west. Alexandra Brites It is a somewhat atypical subdivision, with inaccuracies in the execution and a disproportionate scale ratio between the space allocated to the public road and the private area of the lots. The rules imposed on the Lapa lot were quite restrictive and as the time available for the project and the work did not admit the possibility of doing an alteration to the allotment project, we assumed the prescriptions for the lot as if it were a physical pre-existence. Alexandra Brites Thus, we started with a parallelepiped volume, defined by the implantation a... More

Project • By Floret • Hotels

EXMO HOTEL

The reconstitution of the timeline shows that, in fact, we are not facing a building, but two buildings that have evolved into a single building. The initial building may have been erected in the late 14th or 15th centuries. Surely, it could only have been erected only after the "opening" of Rua Nova, or Rua Formosa (now Rua do Infante), ordered by D. João I (1357-1433). During the period “almadino” gained this neoclassical facade. In the twentieth century the pair Carlos Loureiro and Padua Ramos designed a modernist staircase of extreme elegance. When it came to us, all we had to do was to respect all these layers that had struck a remarkable balance there. It was a bank. Before that there were many things: offices, insurance firms, wareho... More