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Loures Riverfront in Lisbon
19 July 2025
Design: Topiaris Landscape Architecture
Location: Lisbon Region, Portugal
Photos: João Guimarães, Artur Carvalho
Loures Riverfront, Portugal
The initial premise of Loures Riverfront was to complete the intermunicipal pedestrian and cycling continuity, connecting Lisbon to Vila Franca de Xira, and to consolidate an important strategic plan that aims to implement a continuous route along the Tagus Riverfront in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
It was also intended to encourage the connection from Loures’ urban areas, isolated by roads and railway infrastructures. As a result, this pedestrian and cycling route constitutes an important mobility infrastructure with a significant impact on the current daily commuter matrix, contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions and positively affecting the lives of the communities.
An analysis of the project area revealed a surprising landscape: a mosaic of natural ecosystems in the vicinity of a highly urbanized zone. Just minutes away from densely populated neighbourhoods, one can find mudflats, salt marshes, and native reed beds, all supporting a diverse array of flora and fauna habitats.
The project sought to weave together the initial focus on mobility with the opportunity to create a unique walkway.
This path would not only serve as a circulation and recreational route, but also as a platform for research, nature interpretation, and public education, raising public awareness for the importance of estuarine ecosystems, biodiversity conservation, and ocean management.
Instead of providing a quick journey from point A to point B, the project was designed to encourage a slower experience of the environment. It invites visitors to observe the birds, rest while overlooking the river, and immerse themselves in the sounds of the marsh.
The Loures Riverside trail stretches for 6.2 km along the right bank of the Tagus River. Taking inspiration from the meandering drainage lines, the trail avoids straight lines in favour of a gentle, curving path that allows observation of the habitats from different perspectives.
Loures Riverfront in Lisbon, Portugal – Building Information
Designers: Topiaris Landscape Architecture – https://ooda.eu/
Design year: 2016-2019
Year Completed: 2023
Landscape architecture team: Catarina Viana, Teresa Barão, Luis Ribeiro, Ana Lemos, Elsa Calhau, Rita Salgado, André Godinho, Henrique Mateus, Nuno Lecoq (landscape ecology consultant)
Structural Engineer – FTD / JETSJ: Pedro Delgado, Alexandre Pinto, Nuno Silva
Signage – DESENHARIA: Pedro Silva e Sousa
Environmental Impact: Bioinsight
Building Company: ABB Group, CARMO, and GEOCONTROLE
About Topiaris
Topiaris is a landscape architecture office based in Lisbon. With more than 30 years of experience, Topiaris has been working in various geographical settings and cultural contexts, at many scales of intervention, ranging from landscape planning, the design of urban parks, public spaces, historical sites restoration, to contemporary design for institutional areas, tourism facilities, and private gardens.
The firm’s body of work reflects a holistic philosophy where all elements intertwine and are essential to the whole, inducing intuitive feel for life, harmonious relationships between people and their environments, and shaping a strong sense of place, integrating local communities throughout the design process.
Topiaris engagement with biodiversity conservation, natural systems functioning, and sustainable management of natural resources are basic project premises, as well as principles of simplicity and organic sources, aligned with a creative approach to site constraints offering opportunities for a distinctive design, based on authenticity and clarification of motives.
Fostering the ever-evolving landscape processes of evolution in line with natural processes allows Topiaris to achieve mature landscapes, economically and ecologically viable, optimizing the costs of construction and maintenance, hence real sustainability.
Recognizing the responsibility towards present and future generations, Topiaris work reflects creativity in the search of sustainable design solutions, aiming to add ecological, aesthetic, and social values to all projects. Topiaris always bring in the fourth dimension, that of Time, as the way the project will evolve along time is the most reliable indicator of a project’s true value.
Topiaris strives towards the creation of individual and collective memories that may stand the test of time and strengthen communities. Our focus remains unquestionably upon people, as it is for them that we conceive and plan new projects, and for them that we defend he natural and cultural heritage of landscapes.
Photography: João Guimarães, Artur Carvalho
Loures Riverfront, Lisbon, Portugal building renovation images / information received 190725
Location: Lisbon, Portugal, southwestern Europe.
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