Hengqin’s first public high school—Hengqin Experimental Middle School

"Guangdong Urban Architectural Planning and Design Co., Ltd., in a joint venture with Macao LBA, Architecture and Planning, has successfully won the bid for the ‘Hengqin Experimental Middle School Project,’ crafting a benchmark campus that embodies Hengqin-Macao integration." "广东都市建筑规划设计有限公司联合澳门 (LBA) 利宝建筑设计有限公司成功中标“横琴实验中学项目设计”,匠造琴澳融合标杆校园。"  —Published by Guangdong Urban Architectural Planning and Design Co., Ltd.   廣東都市建築規劃設計有限公司出版  

Research on Infrastructure and Public Space in Macau

LAYERING THE CITY Authors: Rui Leão and F. Carlotta Bruni – LBA Macau Price: 45€ Publication date: May 2025 LBA Architecture and Planning is an architectural practice based in Macau, co-founded by architects Rui Leão and F. Carlotta Bruni. The firm specializes in designing projects that integrate contemporary architecture with the historical and cultural context of the region. LBA has contributed to shaping Macau’s urban and architectural identity during the past 20 years of rapid urbanization.

LAYERING THE CITY: Research on Infrastructure and Public Space

The book LAYERING THE CITY: Research on Infrastructure and Public Space featuring the work of LBA Architecture and Planning, has already been launched internationally. First presented at the Venice Biennale in May 2025, it was later celebrated in Macau and São Paulo, Brazil in September and October 2025, and has just been launched this month of February 2026 in Lisbon.

LBA wins International Competition in Korea

LBA wins 3rd Place in the international competition for the design of monitoring house of a large-scale offshore wind turbine test in Korea. The entitled A Fusion of Nature and Settlement was aimed at establishing an integrated monitoring center to perform

Hidden Architects Exhibition Overview

Click here to see the video for the 2021 Hidden Architects exhibition featuring LBA Architecture and Planning Exhibition held from 2021.02.16 to 2021.04.25 Gallery 3, B3F, Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture

Fai Chi Kei Public Housing @ urbanNext

This article focuses on the investigation of the role of a single building in the broader context of a high-density city. The building block is an exercise in the orderly stacking of over 700 apartments and the definition of a vertical neighborhood.

Design Activism in the Context of Macau @ urbanNext

This article focuses on the EPM or Portuguese School of Macau and on the building’s struggle to “survive” as a post-classic monument in a city that navigates a fragile balance when it comes to heritage conservation.

Sai Van Urban Park @ Architizer

“We avail ourselves of techniques from Portuguese urbanism combined with our own perspective on logistics management of human and traffic flows in an urban setting, joining functionality with the spatial design of the connecting space.”