MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

This guide to MAAT in Lisbon opens inside the red brick Central Tejo power station next door, where nearly five hundred workers kept the city lit for sixty-six years before it fell silent in 1975. It follows the decades the riverside site sat unused, and the British architect Amanda Levete, who unveiled a very different building on it in 2016. You'll hear how the new structure's ceramic-clad curve was designed to be walked over, not just entered, and what its shape looks like from the water. Climb the rooftop promenade for the view between the old power station and the Tagus.