MEO Arena
MEO Arena is a purpose-built answer to a very specific Expo ’98 problem: Lisbon needed a versatile indoor venue that could handle concerts, congresses, and large-scale indoor sports, at a time when existing Portuguese facilities often topped out around 4,000 spectators. The arena—formerly Pavilhão Atlântico and later Altice Arena—was built in 1998 for Expo ’98, and it is now the largest indoor arena in Portugal, with a seating capacity of 20,000. Its design is credited to Regino Cruz, and it sits within a setting that is protected as a protected site. That original brief also shaped its technical role. The project specifically targeted the live-TV and staging infrastructure required for modern concerts and musicals, as well as the kind of indoor-sport hosting that smaller halls struggled to support. Ownership and branding tell another chapter of its life: in July 2012, the venue was sold to Arena Atlântico S.A. …
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