Campo de Ourique

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…

Bairro Alto, Bica and Cais do Sodré form a tightly woven fabric of steep lanes, small plots and buildings that largely predate the twentieth century. Abrupt level changes and limited open space compre…

An older urban core survives alongside the much larger housing expansions that transformed Benfica during the twentieth century. Mid-rise blocks, planned estates and traditional street fragments creat…

Jardim da Estrela gives the surrounding streets a strong civic and everyday focus, linking public space with the area’s older built fabric. Irregular streets, apartment buildings, embassies and instit…

Former warehouses, port infrastructure and hillside housing give the area an unusually layered urban fabric. The lower riverside zone retains an industrial scale, while steep, irregular streets above…

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…