The EDP Foundation has announced that MAAT, the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology in Lisbon, will open to the public on October 4-5. The museum, with a new kunsthall building designed by AL_A, will ?become the centerpiece of one of the Portuguese capital?s most popular cultural areas, the historic riverside district of Belém."

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The EDP Foundation has announced that MAAT, the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology in Lisbon, will open to the public on October 4-5. The museum, with a new kunsthall building designed by AL_A, will ?become the centerpiece of one of the Portuguese capital?s most popular cultural areas, the historic riverside district of Belém."Pedro Gadanho, who previously held a role as a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, has been appointed the first Director of MAAT.
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?MAAT will focus on contemporary culture through a combination of visual arts and media, architecture and city, technology and science, [and] society and thought," states EDP in a press release. 

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The new AL_A kunsthall building will add over 7,000 square meters of public space to the area, and was designed as a response to ?the natural assets of the waterfront site, framing an architectural narrative that is sensitive to both its cultural heritage and the future of the city.?The design features a "gracefully undulating roof, conc...