Projeler/Projects: Lizbon / Lisbon
DENİZE BAKAN AMFİTİYATRO LİZBON
HALKININ KULLANIMI İÇİN TASARLANMIŞ.
THE AMPHITHEATRE FACING THE WATER IS DESIGNED
FOR PUBLIC USE.
Commission on Urbanization by Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi in 1985.
Correa says that he has strong feelings for the site of
Champalimaud Centre and his architecture well-respects
the physical, social, and historical context: “Of course
we have a very special site. One of astonishing Beauty
– and great historic Memory. Norbert Schulz has written
eloquently about what he calls the genius loci, the
essential meaning of a site – and Architecture’s unique
responsibility to express, to release, that meaning. For
a building is rooted in the soil on which it stands, in
the climate, in the technology, in the culture – and the
aspirations! - of the society that uses it. This is why
the same building cannot be repeated anywhere and
everywhere in the world.”
The Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown is built
for the Champalimaud Foundation and consists of an
translational centre for brain, eye-sight and cancer
research. The complex covers a built-up area of 50,000 m2
and is composed of two building blocks and a public
area in between. The largest volume which houses the
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