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Materials
Concrete that ages well: notes from the Escola Velha site
What we learned casting new floors beside 1912 granite — mixes, formwork, and why we stopped sealing concrete.

Light
Designing for the low winter sun in Lisbon
Lisbon gets more winter sun than almost any European capital. A short guide to letting it in — and keeping the summer out.

Adaptive reuse
The case for keeping the old roof
Demolition is the most carbon-intensive decision on any project. At Armazém 7 we fought to keep every truss we could.

Studio
Models before renders: inside our workshop
We still build physical models for every project. Here is why cardboard and plaster tell us things a screen cannot.

Practice
What a planning application in Portugal really involves
Licensing, heritage zones and the 'PIP' — a plain-English guide to permitting a house in Portugal, and how long it really takes.
