posts tagged ‘lisbon’
Lisbon >> Brussels
October 13th, 2011 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: aerophotography, brussels, lisbon
The United Spiderwebs of Europe | September 2, 2011
Moving around is our raison d’être. Sometimes we are here; more than often we are there. We’re strangers to some cities, inhabitants of others. We’re living in an actual world, in the reality of the runway and enjoy the freedom, and luxury, of flying. We leave and return. Flying from the South of Europe to the Middle of Europe, from Lisbon to Brussels, we indulged in aerophotography. People around us reacted nervous to the sound of the shutter: it was summer, the time of the year tourists move around en masse. read more »
Évora | Quinta da Malagueira
October 3rd, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, travel
Tags: architecture, evora, housing, lisbon
Quinta da Malagueira by Alvaro Siza | August 25, 2011
The Quinta da Malagueira housing project in Évora by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira [1933-...] is an architectural classic. Its grid of parallel rows of streets and alleys, back-to-back patio houses and system of raised concrete aqueducts – connecting the separate residential clusters together – are part of today’s textbook material on social housing. It is so classic, one tends to forget it exists for over thirty years, it still is inhabited and is evolving to a next stage of architectural adaptation. The adaptation [parking, paint and printed materials] of architectural austerity. read more »
Cascais | Estoril Sol Residence
October 1st, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, travel
Tags: architecture, housing, lisbon
Estoril Sol Residence by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos | August 30, 2011
While on our way to the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, we passed along the Estoril Sol Residence, a 15 storey new housing complex with 110 dwellings, by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos. More background, pictures and video’s of the project via designboom, ArchDaily, Reynaers Aluminium and Joao Morgado. read more »
Cascais | Casa das Histórias Paula Rego
September 29th, 2011 • architectures, movingmemos, travel
Tags: architecture, exhibition, lisbon
Casa das Histórias Paula Rego by Eduardo Souto de Moura | August 30, 2011
While in Lisbon last month, MovingCities went on a drive to the nearby coastal town of Cascais. This with the purpose to visit the already much published Casa das Histórias Paula Rego [via ArchDaily, MIMOA, dezeen, wallpaper, Fernando Guerra, publico or blueprint] by the Pritzker-Prized Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. read more »
Portugal | drive-through II
October 15th, 2010 • movingmemos, travel
Tags: lisbon, on-the-move
From Portimão to Alte | Algarve, August 16, 2010
More summer snapshots while driving along Portugal’s secondary routes. This time from Prainha, Portimão to Alte, passing such poetic places as Silves and São Bartolomeu de Messines, having respectively about 10,800 and 9,500 inhabitants. A journey from the sandy and crowded Algarve beach to the hilly interior countryside and the whitewashed houses and narrow, cobbled streets of the village of Alte, 2,000 inhabitants. read more »
