Orient Station / Santiago Calatrava

Orient Station, designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava, was built in 1998 due to Expo 98, and nowadays is one of the most important railway stations in Lisboa. This intermodal station houses train, bus, and subway traffic ( with a capacity for 12000 passengers per day ), and even a wide commercial zone of 5000 m2.

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Along its six floors, the station integrates long term and urban railway traffic, subway, and a direct connection with the nearby Lisbon Airport, that permits direct flights check-in for the railway users.

The building process took a three years period, 2000 workers and a total budget of 25.000 Milliones of Ptas, and the working plot was an area of 70.000 m2.

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The design of the Orient Station is based on concrete and white steel, with suggestive forms made in both materials with a lightness that impresses.

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This building grows in lightness by each meter higher from the subway station to the railway one. From this Railway Station some steel and glass trees of 25 meters and 40 tons each one, grow to the top, showing a structure similar to a bot palm tree wood.