B + ABR - Backheuser and Riera Arquitetura is an architecture and urban planning firm founded in 2014 as a result of the partnership between the offices BlAC and ABR, which started in 2010.
As of the experience acquired by their partners, responsible amongst others for projects such as Olympic arenas, housing, schools, corporative, hotels and several urbanization projects, B + ABR aims at a collaborative and multidisciplinary future , seeking to leverage the exchange of experiences and the symbiosis between the Brazilian-Carioca and Spanish-Catalan cultures to the utmost.
With a mixed team based in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the purpose is to establish a multicultural and multidisciplinary practice in different scales and typologies of projects through a solid relationship of partnership with its clients, employees and its team.
Together, BlAC and ABR won the "Porto Olímpico" competition (2011) and since then it has been developing several projects, amongst which the Porto Vida residential complex, the Luiz Paulo Conde Urbanization (the Water Promenade) in the port and center region of Rio and the Hotel Moinho Fluminense, all of them as B+ABR.