Gare do Oriente rises in Lisbon, designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava beginning with his 1995 concept and completed for the city's Expo 98 world's fair, opening to the public on May 19, 1998. The station's modernist structure draws visibly on Gothic architectural forms, its platforms covered by a lattice canopy of glass and metal carried on branching reinforced concrete supports that critics have frequently compared to a forest or a cathedral nave. Calatrava raised the station's platform level some 19 meters above the surrounding roadway, a design choice intended to remove the physical barrier a conventional at-grade station would have placed between the city and the Tagus riverfront, and the complex combines train, metro and bus services with an integrated shopping center, the Vasco da Gama Commercial Centre, and a police station within the same structure. At its opening Gare do Oriente was considered the largest intermodal transport station in Portugal, and the project won the Brunel Award for large new construction in October 1998, recognizing its architectural ambition as a piece of infrastructure built to represent Portugal on the international stage during the Expo.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own accountIntermodal transport station 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
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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.
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Source Wikipedia: Gare do Oriente
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Source Wikipedia: Gare do Oriente
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Portugal, located there.
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1. Wikipedia: Gare do Oriente
WikipediaLead section, hub description clause
is an intermodal transport hub situated in the civil parish of Parque das Nacoes, in Lisbon.
Lead section, place name clause
is an intermodal transport hub situated in the civil parish of Parque das Nacoes, in Lisbon.
History section
The station was inaugurated on 19 May 1998, as part of the celebrations marking the opening of the Expo '98 world's fair.
- Wikipedia "Gare do Oriente" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
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Gare do Oriente rises in Lisbon, designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava beginning with his 1995 concept and completed for the city's Expo 98 world's fair, opening to the public on May 19, 1998. The station's modernist structure draws visibly on Gothic architectural forms, its platforms covered by a lattice canopy of glass and metal carried on branching reinforced concrete supports that critics have frequently compared to a forest or a cathedral nave. Calatrava raised the station's platform level some 19 meters above the surrounding roadway, a design choice intended to remove the physical barrier a conventional at-grade station would have placed between the city and the Tagus riverfront, and the complex combines train, metro and bus services with an integrated shopping center, the Vasco da Gama Commercial Centre, and a police station within the same structure. At its opening Gare do Oriente was considered the largest intermodal transport station in Portugal, and the project won the Brunel Award for large new construction in October 1998, recognizing its architectural ambition as a piece of infrastructure built to represent Portugal on the international stage during the Expo.
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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