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Architects: AL_A – Amanda Levete Architects

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Structure and Services: ARUP scheme – AFA consulting

Project Team: Alex Bulygin, Paula Vega, Dave Flynn, YooJin Kim, Ciriaco Castro Diez,

Jurgen Strohmayer

Project Associate: Maximiliano Arrocet

Project area: 8,000 sqm

Project year: 2013

Renders: Courtesy of Amanda Levete Architects

The EDP Foundation Cultural Centre in Lisbon is a project about water, light, reflections

and people – a building that captures the essence of the unique riverside site and the

extraordinary southern light of Lisbon.

The site is of strategic importance. Acting as the gateway to the culturally rich area of

Ajuda / Belém, the building will be a magnet, drawing people from the heart of the city to

the panoramic views along the Tagus estuary. The currently neglected riverfront area will

be activated, and the cultural centre will become one of Lisbon’s leading destinations.

This project is also about democracy. It is a building for the people – for the people of

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by Andrew RosenbergCultural Amanda Levete

Architects Lisbon Portugal

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Lisbon, for cultural visitors and for tourists. It is a building for culture and leisure that defies

the boundaries between public space and building. A simple and organic gesture creates a

topographic form that blends into landscape making a fluid and natural relationship

between inside and outside – people move over as well as through the building.

The building creates an attractive landscape, stepping down into the river Tagus. At high

tide the steps are covered with water creating a constantly changing space that converses

with the tide and the reflections from the water. The reflections play with the overhanging

façade to give unexpected lighting effects both inside and out, capturing and magnifying the

unique light qualities of this south facing site. An area of welcome shade is naturally

created by the cantilevered structure.


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The roof offers panoramic views towards the river as well as across the cultural area of

Ajuda / Belém. In relationship to the Museu da Electricidade next to it the building is

modest in height. It reflects the horizontal emphasis of the riverfront and is designed to

have minimum visual impact on views from the city. Lisbon’s rich heritage of complex

cobble stone patterns is subtlety reinterpreted and used to merge the existing materiality

of the pathways with new public spaces that speak of modernity.


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