Archinect - Features 2024-12-22T07:09:03-05:00 https://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 Walter 2015-01-03T09:00:00-05:00 >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 &Oacute;bidos 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&nbsp;European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture &ndash; Mies van der Rohe Award 2015.</p>