Brasília

Landscape architect

Oscar Niemeyer

Year

1960

Style

Brazilian Modernism

Type

landscape

Brasília is a planned federal capital cut into the cerrado of central Brazil and inaugurated on 21 April 1960, conceived as a deliberate gesture of national modernization under President Juscelino Kubitschek. Lúcio Costa's…

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1960
Original construction
Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer

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1966
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1966
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1958
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1956
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Praça dos Três Poderes

Hospital da Lagoa

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Triângulo Building

Ibirapuera Park

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