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Home » Theater Guide » Location » Portugal » Lisbon » Teatro Capitólio

Teatro Capitólio

Lisbon, Portugal
Parque Mayer
, Lisbon 1250-117 Lisbon Portugal
(map)
Status: Closed
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Art Moderne
Function: Unknown
Seats: 900
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Luis Cristino da Silva
Firm: Unknown
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Teatro Capitolio is located at Parque Mayer, an entertainment precinct in Lisbon which opened in 1922. Portuguese architect Luis Cristino da Silva (1896-1976) designed Capitolio in 1925-1929. The engineer Jose Belard da Fonseca (1899-1969) was responsible for the building's adventurous reinforced concrete structure. When it opened to the public in 1931, it was an unprecedented statement in Portugal of the spirit of the modern world. The innovative entertainment venue combined a cinema / theatre hall with a roof-terrace for performances in the open. With its acclaimed pioneering functionalist architecture, Capitolio is an outstanding example from the early days of the Modern Movement in Europe.

The Capitolio is listed by the Portuguese State (1983) and registered in the Docomomo Iberico (1996).

The Capitolio closed in the 1980s and has since been left to ruin. Its restoration - long overdue - is being called for by the pressure group "Citizens for the Capitolio" together with the National Museum of Cinema, the National Museum of Theatre and Docomomo International.

The owner - the City Council of Lisbon - proposes its demolition and replacement with a new theatre designed by architect Frank O. Gehry.

The Teatro Capitolio has been selected by World Monuments Fund for the "World Monuments Watch - 100 Most Endangered Sites" list of 2006 (www.wmf.org). The forgotten but precious Capitolio - considered the first great Modern Movement building in Portugal - is in urgent need of rescue and attention.
Contributed by Fernando Jorge

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Pictures of Teatro Capitolio here and here.

(And in Portuguese, as in English, "capital" with and "a" and "capitol" with and "o" are different things. The name of the theater is spelled with an "o" in the middle: Capitolio.)

Also, if Frank Gehry has anything to do with any project that replaces this theater, he will lose the last scrap of respect I still have for him.
posted by Joe Vogel on Jul 16, 2005 at 1:59am
More photos avaliable on http://www.ippar.pt/pls/dippar/pat_pesq_detalhe?code_pass=74171
(click on "Imagens")
posted by Paulo Ferrero on Sep 7, 2005 at 12:20am
I have visited Lisbon for both work and play. It is a city remarkable for many things, architecture being one of them. Cities across Europe are recognizing the importance of their Modern buildings, and Lisbon should be no exception. The Teatro Capitolio may no longer strike the visitor the way it did in its heyday, but it remains a valuable part of the city's architectural story. It is sad to know that the renowned architect Frank O. Gehry has proposed the site's redevelopment with insensitivity and such disregard for the building. I truly hope the Captitolio's listing by World Monuments Fund will wake him up!

Robert Giles,
London
posted by Robert Giles on Jan 23, 2006 at 6:19am
Parque Mayer is tucked away just off the main street in Lisbon and is like going back into some wierd time warp, there are four theatres grouped around a car park, the Capitolio, teatro maria vitoria, teatro ABC and the teatro Variedades.
All in use except the Capitolio which is a magnificent but crumbling wreak, lots of water has got into the reinforced concrete giving the building a leporous exterior
exterior
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2672766180/sizes/l/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2671940069/sizes/l/
frontage
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2671942121/sizes/l/
front doors with equally rough looking kitty
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2671959079/sizes/l/
ghostly lobby doors
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2672771520/
teatro variedades opposite front doors of the capitolio
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2672256896/
teatro ABC next door
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2671930507/
teatro marai vitoria opposite
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2671444473/
entry to parque mayer with amazing huge deco lights
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2671966877/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/2672790998/sizes/l/
posted by woody on Jul 22, 2008 at 5:47am
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