Lisbon Portugal - city & architecture

Metro Station Baixa-Chiado is a unique and impressive subway, opened in 1998, created by architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. Metro station Baixo-Chiado is one of the most important transfer stations, and one of the most crowded of Lisbon. New is the extension towards the international Santa Apolónia train station, opening on 19 December 2007, more than five years late due to tunnelling problems at the waterfront.



The MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, which opened its doors to the public in 2016, presenting itself as a new cultural centre in the city of Lisbon. The MAAT represents an ambition to host national and international exhibitions with contributions by contemporary artists, architects and thinkers. A space for debate, critical thinking and international dialogue, which offers an intense and diverse programme conceived for all audiences and ages.


Shopping Centre - Strategically located in a prime area of Lisbon – the Parque das Nações – the Vasco da Gama Shopping Centre gears its offering towards a wide target public that includes not only tourists but also people who live and work in the surrounding area and the cities of Lisbon and Loures. The centre opened its doors to the public in 2009 and since then has become a benchmark for everyone who values the option of combining shopping with leisure and free-time activities. To accommodate its many visitors, the Vasco da Gama Centre has around 2,600 parking spaces and 170 shops covering a total gross area of around 49,000 m2. Apart from the huge selection of shops, the centre also features a six-screen cinema and a health club.


Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon Portugal - Charles Correa Associates designed this research and diagnostic centre located in Lisbon. It is a state-of-the-art facility guided by some of the best scientist in the world. The site, where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean, is steeped in history. It is the site where Henry the Navigator, Vasco de Gama and other great Portuguese left on their journeys into the unknown—a perfect metaphor for the discoveries of contemporary science today.
Located in Campolide, on one of the seven hills of Lisbon, the rectory building of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, designed by the architects Manuel Rocha Aires Mateus and Francisco Xavier Rocha Aires Mateus, was awarded the Portuguese Valmor Prize for Architecture in 2002. The originality of this construction also resides in the fact that it has a staircase located at the side of the building which curiously does not lead to the main entrance. There are two openings in the staircase which lead to the Atrium. The end of the staircase leads onto a platform which functions as a covering for a significant part of the building, namely the two Auditoria, the Atrium, the Senate Room and the various support sections.



Oriente Station Lisbon Portugal - design Santiago Calatrava 1998 - Going beyond the competition brief, Calatrava proposed piercing the embankment to establish a link between the previously separated areas of the Olivais District. The existing Avenida Berlin, perpendicular to the embankment, was extended to the river's edge. The new Reciproca Avenida, a matching but slightly oblique avenue, was built on the northern edge to establish an important east-west axis penetrating the Expo site. This solution provided clear and easy pedestrian access among the various transport modes, while serving as the ordering principle for the entire proposal.


The Cultural Centre of Belém (CCB) is located in Santa Maria de Belém, near the riverfront west of Lisbon. It is the largest building with cultural facilities in Portugal. The CCB has 140,000 m² of construction area and was prepared in a very short period (1989–1992). The client of the project was the Portuguese State. Completed in 1992, it is the work of architects Vittorio Gregotti and Manuel Salgado; the interior was planned by Daciano Costa. The CCB was initially built to accommodate the European Presidency, but adapted to provide spaces for conferences, exhibitions and artistic venues, such as opera, ballet and symphony concerts, in addition to political and research congresses, high security meeting halls, and a 7,000 m² exhibition area. It has already hosted important events like the summit meeting of the Heads of State of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).


The Santa Justa Lift / Elevador de Santa Justa is an elevator in the civil parish of Santa Justa, in the historical city of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of Rua de Santa Justa, it connects the lower streets of the Baixa with the higher Largo do Carmo. Since its construction the Lift has become a tourist attraction for Lisbon as, among the urban lifts in the city, Santa Justa is the only remaining vertical one.