Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)

Levete’s design for the EDP Foundation was published in 2011 and the building opened on 5 October 2016, at the start of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale; the German record notes that construction was formally completed only in March 2017. The brief was to reconnect Belém with the Tagus across a road and a railway, and the answer is a building you are meant to walk over rather than into. It stays under twelve metres so as not to block the historic quarter, and its roof is a continuous ramped surface reached by a footbridge, so the museum doubles as a public terrace facing the water. Beneath the cantilevered arch is a column-free oval gallery. The skin is the argument: roughly 15,000 white three-dimensional tiles, crackle-glazed, set to catch and scatter the light coming off the estuary — a modern reading of the azulejo that Lisbon has used on facades for four centuries.