Bids for building the project on lands to be used for the 1998 exposition were solicited internationally. The concept was originally designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava in 1995, and built by Necso &lt;a href="<a class="external free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_do_Oriente">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_do_Oriente</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;[Wikipedia]&lt;/a&gt;
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