MAAT & Central Tejo: The Power of Architecture and Innovation

Why is it significant?

Walk onto the sweeping, wave-like pedestrian roof of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), designed by British architect Amanda Levete and opened in twenty sixteen.

Key Facts

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Walk onto the sweeping, wave-like pedestrian roof of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), designed by British architect Amanda Levete and opened in twenty sixteen. Clad in fifteen thousand three-dimensional glazed ceramic tiles that catch the changing reflections of water and sunlight, the building swoops down toward the Tagus like an undulating white wave.

Directly beside it rises the monumental red-brick facade, iron chimneys, and arched industrial windows of Central Tejo, the historic coal-fired thermoelectric power station that illuminated the entire city of Lisbon from nineteen zero eight through the nineteen fifties.

Inside Central Tejo, you can walk among gargantuan high-pressure boilers, steam generators, and coal conveyor belts where stokers shoveled tons of coal in sweltering fifty-degree heat to keep the capital glowing with electric power.

Walk out to the cantilevered observation terrace over the river.