Stories

May 16, 2024

Opening 06.06.24

City Cortex opens on June 6th 2024! Join us at the bank of the Tagus river and get to know the authors and their contributions to this project which melds... read more

May 15, 2023

Cork and Greater Lisbon

City Cortex works with a sustainable material, cork, encouraging its use in the context of contemporary cities. If Portugal is recognised as the world’s largest producer of cork, less well... read more

March 19, 2019

From nature to industry

After a visit to a cork oak tree forest in Coruche the previous day, Dominic Leong, Jessie Baxa and Stefan Sagmeister continued their adventure of understanding the mechanisms of Portuguese... read more

March 18, 2019

Cork: State of Nature

The undeniable link between mankind and nature is a frequently explored theme in the fields of design and architecture. The choice of certain materials, for instance, actively contributes to the... read more

December 17, 2018

Cork: a natural technology for the future

Elizabeth Diller and Benjamin Gilmartin from DS+R were the second participants of the City Cortex programme to visit Corticeira Amorim. The partners of this renowned New York based design and... read more