Tomás Taveira

• Name — Tomás Taveira • Birth Name — Tomás Cardoso Taveira • Born — 22 November 1937 • Birthplace — Lisbon, Portugal • Significant Buildings — * Alfragide Towers • Amoreiras Complex • Estádio José Alvalade and Alvalade XXI • Estádio Municipal de Aveiro • Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa

• Illustration — Amoreiras Towers (Torres das Amoreiras), Lisbon - south view. • Illustration — Leiria Stadium, Leiria. Tomás Taveira's emblematic buildings include: • Alfragide Towers • Zona J Housing Complex • Amoreiras Towers, Lisbon, Portugal • Arco-Íris Building, Lisbon, Portugal • BNU building, Av. 5 de Outubro, Lisbon, Portugal • Aveiro Stadium, Aveiro, Portugal • Alvalade Stadium, Lisbon, Portugal • Leiria Stadium, Leiria, Portugal • New Arena Palestra Itália, São Paulo, Brazil

The housing complex projected by Taveira in Marvila, Lisbon was scheduled for partial demolition. The main reason behind this municipal decision was urban and social degeneration caused by uncontrollable drug use and trafficking, increased crime rates and juvenile delinquency. The building complex proved to be quite propitious to such behaviours as it included quite a lot of underused, marginal spaces with difficult possibilities of natural surveillance. One of the main streets, named The Corridor of Death has been the stage of many gangster homicides and other crimes. The municipality found no solution other than the demolition of some blocks, as it was impossible to regenerate such spaces created by Taveira. This area has been depicted many times in Portuguese film history, including in the film Zona J directed by Leonel Vieira and in the short-film Arena by João Salaviza, which won the Short Film Palme d'Or at Cannes Festival.

Taveira was a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon until 2003, when he was expelled due to a disciplinary process.

In 2021, Sporting CP, headed by club president Frederico Varandas, announced that it would change the colour of the seats in the multicoloured stands of Estádio José Alvalade to green (the main colour of the sports club) and Taveira, as the architect behind the project, couldn't hide his dismay at the club's initiative. He said that the venue, when stripped of fans, "will be less than depressing, but if Sporting thinks it's a good solution...".

Works recorded as notable number 3: Estádio Municipal de Aveiro – Mário Duarte, Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa and Estádio José Alvalade.