There is a popular legend that 19th-century Italian priest Don Bosco, the founder of the Catholic Salesian Order and a revered saint, had a prophetic dream in 1883 that predicted a flourishing, ...
Brasília can be described in many ways: a monument to architectural modernism, the fulfillment of a political ambition, a city hostile to pedestrians. Whatever its description, three names stand out ...
Oscar Niemeyer the Brazilian architect who died this week will be best remembered for Brasilia, the city he helped design in the late 1950s. Niemeyer's modernist architecture made Brazil's federal ...
Ahead of the 2014 World Cup, Bleacher Report is running a series of articles looking at the cities that are set to host the tournament next summer. Having begun in Belo Horizonte, next up on the list ...
Oscar Niemeyer designed a metropolis where none had stood previously when he envisioned Brazil’s capital. Jonathan Glancey looks at the success rate of ‘new cities’. The view from high hotel windows ...
In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in ...
Oscar Niemeyer designed a metropolis where none had stood previously when he envisioned Brazil’s capital. Jonathan Glancey looks at the success rate of ‘new cities’. The view from high hotel windows ...
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