The architectural element of the practice's workload includes shopping centres, business parks and shop interiors – a similar mix to its UK operation. Clients include multinationals such as Sony, BASF, Roche and BP, as well as large Portuguese property developers such as Grupo Amorim, and Imocom.
The office has recently broke into the Portuguese public sector, with a commission for Lisbon's Rossio rail terminus.
"Being an international company has helped," said Stuart Rough who runs the Lisbon office with his Portuguese wife Margarida de Ordaz Caldeira.
"What we've done is to become adaptable to local and international clients."
Looking to the future, Rough says there is likely to be a slowdown in Portuguese retail work after the government raised VAT 2%.
"We are approaching the end of big shopping centres," he said.
"The practice is now starting on smaller, more difficult schemes in the historic centres of smaller towns."
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