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PORTUGAL EXCURSIE / KABK AFD. INTERIEUR ARCHITECTUUR / 2012PORTUGAL EXCURSIE / KABK AFD. INTERIEUR ARCHITECTUUR / 2012PAVILION OF PORTUGAL3OntwerpALVARO SIZA VIEIRAGegevenslocatie Lissabonfunctie Art, museumgebouwd 1998InformatieThe architect’s masterpiece, both for the tension he manages to create between anecessary, desired and difficult monumentality, and the delicate articulation - withthe program and the location - both for daring of the solution and its intensiveeffect of a representative image symbol. The palatial theme, which he used first inthe school in Setúbal, is here taken to expressive heights, combining the ‘colossal’arcade with it’s reflection and sublimation in the waters of the quay. The roof ofthe large ceremonial area is the finishing touch to the effect, which reminds usof Niemeyer and the most innovative of modern architecture and engineering inconcrete and steel. It is an enormous ‘shell’, appearing to throw off its supports(only visible as the skeleton, like armour), and the down-facing curvature (an‘anti-dome’), like a reinforced tent, ephemeral and paradoxically vulnerable, withapparent fragility, but an enormous plastic force.2223