Designed for all those who seek to combine “physical, professional, emotional and social activities”, João Gameiro, founder of Studio Gameiro was tasked with designing a space capable of “promoting social interaction in the city”, maintaining “the eclectic, calm register of a variety of local and international influences”. Resorting to materials such as wicker, stone or floor tiles, The Gladstone evokes exotic oriental atmospheres, while constantly alluding to Portuguese architecture, a preference that is revealed in the Pombaline influence, “through the Santo-André frames used in the wooden structure of the wicker shutters”, as well as in the analogy “to the raised terraces typical of homes in the Alentejo”.