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Pavilion of Portugal - Alvaro Siza Vieira Franco

Also at Lisbon, in the Park of Nations, here is one of the few buildings that I think deserves the trip: Portuguese Pavilion by Alvaro Siza Vieira, designed in collaboration with Souto de Moura, another great architect Portistas tripeiros or if you prefer. Developed at the Universal Exhibition of 1998, it hosted the Portuguese national representation.
But what these planets that are large fairs exhibitions universal? You tell me to create new districts, new infrastructure and economic development of a country ... True, but this marketing status, this quest for excess product territories far removed from urban imperatives, it seems ...
I must say that the poverty of the neighborhood park Nations in Lisbon with a lot of obsolete architectures leads me to think that this is a huge hoax ... Despite the remarkable speeches of Siza of Carrilho Graca or Calatrava, this area is destined to become an amusement park ghost. Nationalism, universalism and Development economic service and lack of urban blight. Bravo guys.

I will therefore ignore the context, once again, to talk about this sublime work of Siza. As you can see in the picture below, it is a huge concrete wall, about twenty centimeters in thickness by about fifty feet long, almost unreal. Floating above a huge vacuum, suspended by powerful buttresses of screw steel, it seems that gravity will be frozen for a moment. Technical prowess in the service of a simple, elegant and symbolic, Siza offers us a great lesson in poetry. In a neighborhood plagued by counterfeit coarse architecture, which attempts to jostle the cantilever and other megastructures, Siza remains the only clear, namely dialogue with the sky, the sea and horizon. Far more subtle than the posturing surrounding Siza develops in an orderly continuity architecture and learned where the white stone Lisbon finds its expression.

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