2008-04-27 »
Traditional Portuguese Architecture: granite and timber balcony, typical house in Pitões das Júnias, Montalegre.
[Originally posted on Mar 11th, 2008]
Category: THE ARCHITECTURE
2008-04-22 » Balance - Lightness - Sobriety. Good architects often reveal themselves better in simple works.
Almograve, Odemira - Portugal.
[Originally posted on Mar 4th, 2008]
Category: THE ARCHITECTURE
2008-04-21 » (Azulejo - from the arabian al Zulaicj, that later became aljulej - small flat and polished stone).
The use of ceramic tiles in Portuguese architecture dates back to the 15th and 16th centuries, after the moorish presence and influence on the Iberian Peninsula.
The façade of a private house, Sintra - Portugal.
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2008-03-29 »
Some aspects of Santa Maria de Celas' cloister, Coimbra - Portugal.
A Cistercian feminin Monastery from 1210, National Monument (Monumento Nacional) decreed on June 6th 1910 (by that time Portugal was a Monarchy!). It is nowadays still one of the most important examples of Portuguese Medieval Art and Architecture.
[Originally posted on [...]
2008-03-15 » - the challenges of Architecture.
Canopy over the central atrium of the Sony Centre (eight buildings complex), Potsdamer Platz in Berlin - Germany.
Glass canopy over the main entry to the DG Bank building (a project by Frank O. Gehry), Pariser Platz in Berlin - Germany.
[Originally posted on Feb 18th, 2008]
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