Designed by Architect Fernando da Costa Belém, its origin dates back to the ’60s and will have been inaugurated in 1976 as Mercado de Levante.

In 1993 the eight tile paneis, authored by Artist Teresa Cortez, placed on the main façade of the Market, became a allegorical contribution, an icon of architectural reference of the Parish of Lumiar.

From images alluding to fruit flavors, vegetables and fish, they transport our imaginary to visualize the interior space, with their colorful stalls, smell mixtures, and noisy sounds typical of these trading areas, but also their intervention establishes a plastic and attractive architectural language, common to this type of equipment.

The Lumiar Market in Lisbon is located at the northern top of Alameda das Linhas de Torres, Freguesia de Lumiar and is part of the Project “One Square in Each Neighborhood” of the Lisbon City Hall.

One of the objectives of the requalification intervention where the market also is inserted was to promote the sustainable appreciation of the “Public Space”, providing the citizen with “humanizing” urban environments, achieved especially through the valorization and substantial increase in pedestrian areas, promoting better quality of life for citizens and persons residing there.

The original project was not contributed relief changes, only superfetaation stemming from the existing space due to the “New Functional Program” for the implementation of a “Biological Market”, encompassing multipurpose areas such as: playful spaces/garden, spaced area, area destined for Workshops/events.

Requalification work of all technical and safety infrastructures were also carried out, as well as resolved issues of the reduction of architectural barriers throughout the Equipment.

The Lumiar Market Requalification Project, I had underpinned a great challenge and objective, to the maintenance of the building moth, integrated in a contemporary environment, whose original simplicity reproposed in the current intervention – conjugated – create an authentic architectural fusion, consona and harmonic.