Oriente Station is a transportation hub in the Parque das Nacoes district of Lisbon, Portugal, designed by the architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in 1998 for that year's Expo 98 world's fair. The station combines a mainline and high-speed rail terminus, a Lisbon Metro station, and bus terminal facilities in a single complex, with its train platforms raised about 19 meters above street level and covered by a lattice roof of glass and steel supported on branching concrete columns that have been compared to a grove of trees or to Gothic vaulting. By elevating the rail line, the design removed what had been a physical barrier between the city and the Tagus riverfront. It remains one of Lisbon's principal transport interchanges.
Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own accountIntermodal transport hub combining a mainline and high-speed rail terminus with a metro station and bus terminal 1 LocationSourced to the subject's own accountParque das Nacoes, Lisbon, Portugal 1 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own accountTransport Terminal (Airport, Ferry, etc.) 1 Connections
Designed By
Designed by Santiago Calatrava.
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikipedia: Gare do Oriente
Uses Element
Source Wikipedia: Gare do Oriente
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Portugal, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Gare do Oriente
Wikipediaopening paragraph
is an intermodal transport hub situated in the civil parish of Parque das Nacoes, in Lisbon. It includes a train station serving regional and intercity services, a metro station and a bus terminal serving local and long-distance routes.
History section, inauguration sentence
The station was inaugurated on 19 May 1998, as part of the celebrations marking the opening
- Wikipedia "Gare do Oriente" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
Oriente Station is a transportation hub in the Parque das Nacoes district of Lisbon, Portugal, designed by the architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in 1998 for that year's Expo 98 world's fair. The station combines a mainline and high-speed rail terminus, a Lisbon Metro station, and bus terminal facilities in a single complex, with its train platforms raised about 19 meters above street level and covered by a lattice roof of glass and steel supported on branching concrete columns that have been compared to a grove of trees or to Gothic vaulting. By elevating the rail line, the design removed what had been a physical barrier between the city and the Tagus riverfront. It remains one of Lisbon's principal transport interchanges.
In Style: Neo-Futurism, Wikipedia categories
Category:Neo-futurist architecture
Uses Element: Glass, Wikipedia article
The station, covered in a lattice structure of glass and metal, is constructed of reinforced concrete and raised 19 metres (62 ft) over the roadway.
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