Misericórdia

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,…

Alfama, Baixa, Castelo and Mouraria bring several contrasting layers of Lisbon’s oldest urban fabric into one area. Steep, irregular lanes around the hills meet Baixa’s ordered grid, while dense pre-m…

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…

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…

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…