WINDOW

Igreja do Antigo Convento de São Francisco, Tavira

OVAL WINDOW

Private House, Faro

ITALIAN WINDOW

Palácio Episcopal de Faro, Architect Fancisco Xavier Fabri.
Not really full on baroque, but the two-dimensionality is made up for by the charming profiles, which could also be called neoclassical save from the pointed "chinese" pediment on top.

BALCONY CORNER

The multiplication of different materials harmoniously blended at this corner in Régua is staggering. Plaster walls, stone balcony-cornices, painted corrugated sheet metal siding, clay tiles, wood trim and wrought iron railings.

ESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇO PASSOS MANUEL

Garagem Passos Manuel, Porto  (1937 - Architect Mário Abreu)

There is no single corner of this parking garage building which is not designed. With steel windows, tiled columns, its interior plaster texture, the neon lighted map of Portugal, the light fixtures, the terrazzo stairs... this building is so much more that just a functional parking place. And if in the ground floor the beautiful store front remains empty, the top floor loft is occupied by one of the best known bars in the nightlife of Porto - Maus Hábitos - offering a nice place for a drink with a great view over town.

DORMER

Bigger than any regular dormer, this attic storey in Régua has several charming features - the roof tiles, of the "canudo" type at the eaves and "marselha" everywhere else; the eaves themselves, of wood with projecting brackets; the gently swooping wood corners, made into pilasters by the addition of a simple molding at the top; and the door opening with a bizarre yet elegant combination of lattice vs minimal railing, all in wrought iron. The walls are "tabique": lime plaster over timber lath, on two layers of wood board sheathing placed at a different angle to each other; these in fact act as structure for a very thin and cheap traditional wall construction.

GLAZED PORCH

Casa de Santa Maria, Cascais, Raul Lino.

WINDOW

Casa do Arco, Leiria, by Ernesto Korrodi.

WINDOW

Private House, Peso da Régua

CORNER CRAZE, BRAGA

"Perversion on every corner" - when I was in New York I heard that as a design request more than once. I bet whoever dreamt up these windows, stacked hipnotic cornices and multiple engaged sinewy pilasters had the same brief.

ERNESTO KORRODI - HOUSE IN LEIRIA II