Casa no Geres

Designed by Porto-based Correia/Ragazzi Aquitectos, has received its fair share of international awards and exposure. This is the first project by Gracia Correia and her new Italian partner, Roberto Ragazzi. It is a bold statement that hides nothing.

Its been a while since we had some architecture on the journal but came across this today. Much like my taste in clothes, it is beautifully simple and sophisticated. Will I ever own something like it ? We all live in some sort of hope, don't we...

The owners, Mica and Eduardo Pinto Ferreira, have been Correia's clients for more than a decade, and gave her carte blanche to create their dream house on the 5,000 square-meter site by the Cevado river - as long as no trees were cut and the 60 square-meter house (maximum allowed footprint for the site) was made of concrete. The house is located in Peneda-Geras National Park, along the Spanish border in northern Portugal.

Via The Cool Hunter