Alvalade

Created during Lisbon’s late nineteenth- and twentieth-century expansion, the area is defined by wide avenues, planned blocks and a larger building scale. Apartment buildings and offices sit side by s…

Praça de Londres and Avenida de Roma anchor a twentieth-century ensemble of broad avenues and mid-rise apartment blocks. Ground-floor shops and services animate the formal street plan, while the consi…

Twentieth-century growth produced a mixed fabric of mid- and high-rise apartment buildings set among large institutional grounds. Hospitals, civic complexes and open green spaces interrupt the housing…

A compact older core and large late twentieth-century developments coexist within Carnide’s sharply contrasting urban fabric. Low-rise traditional streets give way to wide avenues, apartment complexes…

Fragments of older low-rise fabric sit beside the large planned developments that accompanied Lisbon’s outward expansion in the late twentieth century. Apartment complexes and broad streets are inters…

Mid-century planning shaped Olivais around freestanding apartment blocks, generous open space and a clear separation between buildings and streets. Later housing areas added different scales and layou…

Large industrial plots and former warehouses give Marvila a scale unlike Lisbon’s compact traditional quarters. New housing and converted cultural or work spaces now sit among older production sites a…