Santo António

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…

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…

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…