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Braga Stadium – Braga, Portugal

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Architect: Souto de Moura
Structural Engineer: AFA Associados
Landscape Design: Daniel Monteiro
General Contractor: Soares da Costa/Assoc/Ace
Completion: 2004

AE Interests: Steel cables form canopy which is modelled after acient Peruvian Inca’s suspension bridges. Under the field is a 5,000 square meter plaza to move from one side of the field to the other.

Written by Lauren Ramos

September 3, 2010 at 12:10 pm

Posted in Built

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