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Houses in the Algarve with the signature of distinguished architects in the real estate world

Houses in the Algarve with the signature of distinguished architects in the real estate world

Buying a property signed by an award-winning architect is a luxury and a good investment. Find out two houses: one modern, one traditional. Both in the Algarve.

Living in an apartment or a house signed by a renowned architect is having the opportunity to live inside a work of art. Architects are able to achieve what no decoration can: beauty, subtlety, purity. And value. Portugal, with two Pritzker Awards, is a breeding ground for world-renowned architects. Today we introduce you to two of those Portuguese architects, from different generations, with houses designed in the Algarve ready to be inhabited.

Raul Lino (1879-1974), born in Lisbon, author of more than 700 works, for whom architecture was an “artistic expression that reflects the historical time that it frames” and Mário Martins, born in the Algarve, who won the first prize of the Architizer A+Awards last year with his work Casa Carrara, built in Praia da Luz, in Lagos. This distinction, in the “Private House” residential category, adds to other awards that this architect has already received. The property is on sale at LUXIMOS Christie's International Real Estate.

Casa Carrara, with its contemporary architectural features, is the “culmination of a triptych” that has been laboured over the course of ten years, said the author to Público Newspaper. At first, he conceived Casa Colunata, then Casa Elíptica and finally Casa Carrara. The three constructions have distinct identities but converge into the same concept that dictates the DNA of Mário Martins’s works: a set of angles, linear and dynamic shapes to which he seeks to give life.

In this luxury villa, located a few minutes from Lagos beaches, with several marinas and golf courses nearby, and which integrates the real estate portfolio available at LUXIMO'S, the architect highlighted the portico and the suspended swimming pool. The first, he explained to the aforementioned newspaper, fulfils the role of “frame”, as it encloses the view to the Algarve sea. The pool, on the other hand, is a nearly natural extension of the house, enhancing the “fluidity that exists between the interior and the exterior." It is also worth noting the white colour of the smooth walls, with marble stone here and there, in contrast to the ocean blue that defines the surrounding landscape. Mário Martins thus tried to "escape from the paradigm of pretentious luxury houses”, making simplicity the most luxurious thing.

Raul Lino is an architect with a completely different style but equally modern. Throughout his long career, the architect has always sought to find new manifestations for what he has invented in the history of Portuguese architecture. His trademark is security, comfort, memory and a certain poetry. In the houses, but not exclusively there. Because he also designed fabrics, wallpaper or door handles. Raul Lino was essentially an architect who used all his tools to improve people's quality of life, namely in the connection he has always made between construction and nature.

It is not by chance that the villa, a beautiful model of the 1930s, which you can also buy at LUXIMOS Christie’s real estate agency, is classified by the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage and by the City Council of Tavira as a Monument of Municipal Interest.

This house, near the beaches of eastern Algarve - Tavira Island, Altura, praia do Barril or praia da Fábrica -, has got macacauba and Brazilian pau amarelo wood flooring, freijó wood handrail and balustrade, rosewood wainscoting, Estremoz marble floor coating and tiles of Leopoldo Battistini, produced at the ceramics factory Constância, in Lisbon, decorating rooms, hall, corridor and stairs, which adds up to a remarkable set of artistic value.

If you intend to live in the Algarve, in a house that has the Midas touch of the Portuguese architects, contact a LUXIMOS Christie’s real estate agent and discover all the possibilities that exist for you, starting with plot areas where you can build everything from scratch. LUXIMO'S Christie's is present all over the Algarve, from Carvoeiro to Albufeira, and pays special attention to the mythical Golden Triangle in Almancil, that consists of Vilamoura, Quinta do Lago and Vale do Lobo.


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