Avenidas Novas

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…

Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century apartment buildings form a dense patchwork around Anjos, Intendente and Alameda. Narrow streets and ground-floor businesses create intimate street fronts,…

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…

Planned in the mid-twentieth century, broad avenues and mid-rise blocks form a coherent Lisbon urban ensemble. Street-level shops, small squares and mature trees soften the orderly grid and give the a…

Avenida da Liberdade provides a formal spine for an area where nineteenth-century architecture meets later offices, hotels and civic buildings. Grand avenues and smaller adjoining streets create prono…

Sloping terrain and large infrastructure works have shaped Campolide more visibly than a single architectural style. Twentieth-century apartment buildings and older street fragments are divided by via…

A regular late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century street grid gives Campo de Ourique a markedly different structure from Lisbon’s older quarters. Mid-rise blocks with active ground floors frame c…