This is the MAAT Gallery in Lisbon. It sit on the Tagus river, as does much of Lisboa. It is the new part of the wider MAAT concept/museum thingy, It hits all of the Museum/Gallery tropes. The one part of an old power station, now disused because you don't keep power stations open which are so close to major cities, a little like Battlesea in London you turn them into art galleries.
But you also need new spaces, and when you build big cultural building nowadays you make them big and white and very cool - This has white tiles that very much remind me of the Sydney Opera House, and it has lines and curves that remind me of, well so many modern buildings, and a ability to walk up onto the roof, to look across the water a little like the Oslo opera house.
So here we go - four views of MAAT Gallery in Lisboa to the locals or Lisbon to us foreigners (and tomorrow four more)
The roof with just a hint of the hand rail - and amazingly no people.
From underneath, with a plane which is always nice
I light the composition of this shot a lot, I was willing to go with the people on the top to give scale. The line of the building leads the eye to the people, who are then looking out to the bridge which is so nicely placed with the cables just hitting underneath the curve of the building. I would like to take credit, and yeah I'm proud of myself for noticing this, but this is the sort of stuff that good architects do - And Amanada Levete (who was lead architerct on this) clearly is
This is maybe the weakest of these shots, but I like that it gives you a sense of how that roof works.
