Monsanto Tower, Modern tower in Algés, Portugal
Monsanto Tower is a glass and steel office tower in Algés, a suburb just west of Lisbon, Portugal, standing 120 meters tall with 17 floors. It rises well above the low-rise surroundings of the western Lisbon area, making it one of the taller structures in this part of the city.
Monsanto Tower was built in the late 1990s and opened in 2001, during a period when the western suburbs of Lisbon were growing quickly. The Oeiras municipality was attracting new business investment at the time, and the tower was part of that wave of construction.
The Monsanto Tower stands in the business district of Algés and is a good example of late 1990s office architecture in the Lisbon suburbs. Its glass and steel profile is easy to spot from the highway and from the Tagus River.
Algés has a train station on the Cascais line, which connects the area directly to central Lisbon, making the tower easy to reach without a car. The surrounding streets are open and easy to walk, so the building can be seen clearly from the nearby roads and the riverfront.
The tower takes its name from the nearby Monsanto forest, the largest urban forest in the Lisbon region. The forest name itself comes from Latin and means something close to "sacred mountain", which gives the tower an older layer of meaning than its modern shape suggests.
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