Copacabana Promenade
Also known as Calcadao de Copacabana
1970
Brazilian Modernism
landscape
Burle Marx redesigned the Copacabana beachfront promenade in 1970 using undulating black-and-white Portuguese limestone mosaic patterns that have become synonymous with Rio itself. The abstract wave pattern (broader and more dynamic than…
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- 1970
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