![]() ![]() Parque Expo received permission for a plan by Portuguese architect Nuno Leónidas to expand on the riverside, for a luxury hotel with 178 rooms in 20 floors. He was sponsored by Optimus Telecomunicações, a Portuguese mobile phone company, that used the climb as part of a marketing campaign for a recently released product. In 2006 the tower was climbed by Alain Robert, a solo urban climber. Instead, it was used for one-off events, like the world premiere of the new Mini car in 2001. The base building was to be leased for office space after the closing of the Expo, but never found tenants. While they were open, the tower was the tallest structure in Portugal open to the public (excluding bridges). Both the observation deck and the restaurant were closed in October 2004. At the base of the tower was a three-story building that served as the European Union Pavilion during the Expo. At the 120-metre stage, there was an observation deck and, just below it, a luxury panoramic restaurant. ![]() The tower was built in 1998 for the Expo 98 World's Fair. The steel structure, representing the sail of a caravel, was assembled by engineering company Martifer. The architects of the tower were Leonor Janeiro, Nick Jacobs and SOM (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill). It is named after the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, the first European to arrive in India by sail, in 1498. The Vasco da Gama Tower (Portuguese: Torre Vasco da Gama, is a 145-metre lattice tower with skyscraper in Lisbon, Portugal, built over the Tagus river. ![]()
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