Lisbon practice Colectivo Cais explores ways to encourage social behaviour across residential and public projects. Founded in 2014 by Guilherme Bivar and Marta Pavão, the studio’s work is rooted in the Portuguese vernacular, responding to context and optimising traditional architecture in a clean, contemporary way, as displayed in projects like the Cristóvão House in Lisbon. colectivocais.com
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Year in review: top 10 design stories of 2024Wallpaper* magazine's 10 most-read design stories of 2024 whisk us from fun Ikea pieces to the man who designed the Paris Olympics, and 50 years of the Rubik's Cube
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Sharon Smith's Polaroids capture 1980s New York nightlifeIDEA Books has launched a new monograph of Smith’s photographs, titled Camera Girl and edited by former editor-in-chief of LIFE magazine, Bill Shapiro
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A multifaceted Beverly Hills house puts the beauty of potentiality in the frameA Beverly Hills house in Trousdale, designed by Robin Donaldson, brings big ideas to the residential scale
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Year in review: the top 12 houses of 2024, picked by architecture director Ellie StathakiThe top 12 houses of 2024 comprise our finest and most read residential posts of the year, compiled by Wallpaper* architecture & environment director Ellie Stathaki
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Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2024: meet the practicesIn the Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2024, our latest guide to exciting, emerging practices from around the world, 20 young studios show off their projects and passion
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Branco del Rio's House AA8 brings a pop of colour to its Portuguese neighbourhoodBased in Portugal, Branco del Rio Arquitectos joins the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2024, our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios
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Gulbenkian Foundation's new art centre by Kengo Kuma is light and invitingLisbon's Gulbenkian Foundation reveals its redesign and new contemporary art museum, Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM), by Kengo Kuma with landscape architects VDLA
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City Cortex celebrates cork’s versatility with public installations in LisbonCity Cortex, an urban project in Lisbon developed by Amorim, celebrates cork as a sustainable material with installations by Gabriel Calatrava, Leong Leong, Yves Behar and more
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Casa e a Pedra is a Porto home emerging from a rocky contextCasa e a Pedra by architect François Leite is an urban residential reinvention in Porto, Portugal
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Álvaro Siza Wing expands archive and exhibition space in Porto’s Museu SerralvesÁlvaro Siza returns to Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, crafting his namesake new wing that just opened to the public
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This Portuguese Pavilion in the Garden is a dramatic space for entertainingPavilion in the Garden by Spaceworkers is an event space in Portugal, opening up to its leafy setting through dramatic, minimalist architecture
