Archinect - Features2024-12-22T07:03:12-05:00https://archinect.com/features/article/117442925/showcase-bidos-technological-park-main-building-by-jorge-mealha
Showcase: Ă“bidos Technological Park Main Building by Jorge Mealha Alexander Walter2015-01-03T09:00:00-05:00>2023-07-01T14:16:08-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6u/6ugmxmvjy41xxj0c.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>How does one create a main piazza in the absence of a surrounding urban fabric that typically encloses a <em>Piazza</em>? The design team around architect Jorge Mealha drew from its traditional Portuguese typologies and conceived the Óbidos Technological Park Main Building in the countryside north of Lisbon as contemporary interpretation of a <em>Terreiro</em>.</p><p>While just recently completed, the project has already garnered a respectable nomination for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015.</p>