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1950 · Alcântara, Alcântara, Portugal

Alcântara Maritime Terminal image

Ocean liner terminal in Portugal

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Alcântara Maritime Terminal

Alcântara, Alcântara, Portugal · Exact work coordinates

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Ocean liner terminal in Portugal

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Field	Alcântara Maritime Terminal 1950 · Alcântara, Alcântara, Portugal	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1950	1964
Place	Alcântara, Alcântara, Portugal	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Alcântara, Alcântara, Portugal	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	20°C · 13.4h daylight · 15 km/h wind	-1°C · 13.8h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	Architecture	3 works in corpus
Architects	Porfirio Pardal Monteiro	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus Porfírio Pardal Monteiro	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	building	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	Not recorded yet.	timber
Carbon signals	building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.