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Beira railway station: Exterior · Beira train station, Mozambique
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Beira railway station: Exterior · Beira train station, Mozambique
3/3 · Exterior · Beira train station, MozambiquePhoto: Cornelius Kibelka from Berlin, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
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Infrastructure · Modernism

Beira railway station

Paulo de Melo Sampaio, Francisco Castro · Beira, MZ · 1966

Key featuresTropical modernist station: a long concrete concourse below a tower block, with shaded facades.

Architect
Paulo de Melo Sampaio, Francisco Castro
Place
Beira, MZ
Year
1966
Typology
Infrastructure
Movement
Modernism
Region
Africa
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