31/08/2026
We are back to work with a project that stops you in your tracks. This time in Portugal 🇵🇹
On a gentle rise above Meia Praia, where the pinewoods of the western Algarve give way to the Atlantic, Palmares Ocean Living & Golf unfolds across the landscape rather than over it. Designed in its entirety by Pritzker Prize winners RCR Arquitectes RCR Arquitectes for Kronos Homes Kronos Homes the resort gathers a clubhouse, residences and signature villas into a single architectural language: overlapping planes of red pigmented concrete, tinted with the clay of the Algarve soil, stepping down with the terrain toward the sea.
At the Casa Club, the social heart of Palmares, light works with the building’s tiered slabs and multifaceted columns. Warm, restrained illumination settles among the terraces and lounges without breaking the continuity between inside and out, letting the panorama of Meia Praia, the Alvor estuary and the Monchique hills remain the protagonist as day turns to evening on the Al Sud restaurant terrace.
For Maurici Ginés Maurici Ginés founder of Artec Studio, light could only be an extension of RCR’s architecture, never an addition to it. Luminaires reduced to their smallest expression, almost dematerialised, so that what is read is the architecture itself.
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Project info
Client: Kronos Homes
Architecture: RCR Arquitectes
Location: Lagos, Algarve (Portugal)
Year: 2025
