The British architect has created an exotically tiled Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) that finally reunites city and river
“You wouldn’t be able to get away with this in England,” says Amanda Levete, walking up the steep stone roof of her new building, which projects out over the sparkling waters of the Tagus like the prow of a ship. “Thankfully, Lisbon has a more liberal attitude to gradient.”
The British architect’s serpentine structure, rearing up from the riverside in a sinuous swoosh, is the €20m (£17.6m) home of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT). It has been created and funded by the EDP Foundation, the non-profit arm of Portugal’s largest energy company, on a site next to the former Central Tejo power station in Belém, a handsome redbrick and steel temple of electricity that has also been transformed, its industrial halls reborn with white-cube galleries.
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