Tag: Ivo Tavares

Costa Nova do Prado does not need another striped wooden house. It already has hundreds of them, and every postcard from the region proves...

The Frame – Praia da Poça is a new residential project by ARX Portugal, developed in co-authorship with Boost Studio, on a coastal plot...

Casa FJ sits inside a development of 28 semi-detached houses in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, and from the street, it plays by the rules....

Tucked into a landscape of centuries-old cork oak trees on the Alentejo coast, Casa em Melides by Sabrab Architecture is one of those rare...

Casa do Alpendre sits on a plot in Quinta da Coutada, Vila Franca de Xira, where no two buildings speak the same architectural language....

Somewhere between preservation and reinvention, the most honest architecture happens. Atelier d'arquitectura Lopes da Costa understood this when they stepped into a pre-1951 house...

Slopes do not forgive indecision. A plot that drops six meters from street to garden demands a clear architectural answer — or it swallows...

Some houses impress. Then some houses stay with you. Casinha da Melroeira, designed by Filipe Saraiva and photographed by Ivo Tavares, belongs firmly to the...

Schist and concrete shouldn't work together. Yet here, at 1,200 meters above sea level in Portugal's Serra da Estrela Natural Park, this unconventional pairing...

Architecture usually favors the young or the ambitious. Most clients build homes to raise families or to signal status. However, the clients behind Casa...

Radical simplicity demands courage in modern architecture. A minimalist white house often risks appearing sterile or overly exposed to the outside world. However, the recent project...

Minimalism often risks becoming sterile, yet Casa dos Sobreiros II proves that rigorous geometry can yield profound warmth. Photographed by Ivo Tavares, Urbanpolis –...