AN Apartment is a modern home located in Lisbon, Portugal, redesigned in 2022 by NMDARQ – NMD Arquitecto Lda.

Description
Located in one of the main arteries of the city of Lisbon, Avenida Almirante Reis, the Apartment is an integral part of a building built in the 40s of the 19th century. XX. designed by the Architect Manuel Norte Junior (1878 -1962), whose works are easily identifiable by the introduction of decorative elements inspired by Art Nouveau, including distinguished in several works in the city of Lisbon with the Valmor Prize.
The building in question, one of the architect’s last works, was created at a time when Norte Júnior was trying to move away from the eclecticism with which he was known, while maintaining, in a way, its imprint in the face of emerging modernism. This fact is very present in the building as well as in the apartments, in our case the apartment, despite having been the subject of interventions over time, some decorative elements of the time were preserved, such as the worked ceilings in the social areas.
With great areas and well-distributed and illuminated spaces, the project fundamentally focuses on adapting the existing to new contemporary uses, preserving the identity and memory values still present in the apartment.

With two independent accesses, the main one, and a service one with direct access to the kitchen, the proposal aims to maintain the accesses and their spatial hierarchy, being proposed...