by Miguel do Rio Branco

MAM-RJ

MAM-RJ (Modern Art Museum - Rio de Janeiro) was designed by architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy, a native from Rio de Janeiro, and was inaugurated in 1958. The collection includes work by main Brazilian artists as well as international recognized artists. The Museum is part of a recreation complex by the ocean, that was completed in 1965.

In the sixties, the Museum was an important venue for vanguard artists meetings and events. That's where Helio Oiticica exhibited his "Tropicalia" work, starting then the "Tropicalista" Movement in the Brazilian arts.

The landscape was designed by Roberto Burle Marx, a renowned Brazilian landscape designer.

The building consists of several concrete columns that wrap and suspend a rectangular concrete/glass two-level box, leaving the street level opened for pedestrians. That makes the site very fluid and accessible. To get into the museum, one needs to go under the suspended structure.

View from inside the Museum.

Rodin Museum

The Rodin Museum in the city of Salvador, Bahia State, was designed by Francisco Fanucci and Marcelo Carvalho Ferraz, and inaugurated on 2006. Rodin masterpieces will be displayed at the main historic renovated building - the Palace Comendador Catharino - and in the gardens. A contemporary addition was built to display temporary exhibits, and it connects to the main building through a bridge overlooking the garden. The integration of the two buildings - that are one century apart in age - and with its gardens express the Brazilian attitude of integration and tolerance. The Museum also serves as a place for gathering, and the exchange of arts and culture.

Photos by Nelson Kon.

Club Nox

This is a nightclub called "Club Nox", located in the city of Recife, Pernambuco State. Designed by Metro Arquitetura + Juliano Dubeux.

Cidade Nova Building

Rio de Janeiro has its first LEED certified project! It's the first Core & Shell certified building in Brazil and Latin America, and the second one outside the United States. The 52,000 m2 building was developed by Bracor, and it's home to Petrobras, the Brazilian Oil Company.

Masp (Sao Paulo's Museum of Art) by Lina Bo Bardi

Imperial Museum

Imperial Museum, where the Portuguese Royal Family lived after moving to Brazil. It's located in the city of Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro State.

by Sebastiao Salgado

Brasilia

"Brasilia, aerial and highway capital, a garden city; the Patriarch's century-old dream." - Lucio Costa.

Tarsila do Amaral - painter

This painting is called "Abaporu", and it is one of the most important paintings made in Brazil. Tarsila painted this in 1928 as a gift to her husband, writer Oswald de Andrade. She named the work "Abaporu", which means, "the man who eats" in tupi-guarani (Brazilian native indian language). After that, Oswald wrote the "Antropophagy Manifesto", and they created the "Antropophagic Movement" in the Brazilian Arts. This Movement was of crucial importance, and its intention was to "eat" and "digest" the european culture and produce Brazilian art related to Brazilian reality and themes.

"The Moon"

"Post Card"

"Anthropophagy"

"Workers"

Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge

The Octavio Frias de Oliveira bridge is best known as The Cable-stayed Bridge. It was opened in May 2008 in São Paulo, Brazil over the Pinheiros River.
Project design team was Catão Francisco Ribeiro, architect João Valente, and engineer Edward Zeppo Boretto.

This is the longest curved suspended bridge in the world - 290 meters (950 feet) long each way. The large X in the middle is 138 meters (450 ft) tall, and a set of 144 steel cables were used to hold the structure of the curved roads.

At rush hour, about 5,000 vehicles per hour will cross the bridge each way.

The Octávio Frias de Oliveira bridge is the only cable stayed bridge in the world that has two curved roads connected to the same tower.

After three years of construction, the bridge is considered one of the main touristic spots in the city.

Maiorca Building by Lourenco Sarmento Architects

The project, designed by Paulo Cesar Lorenco and Bruno Sarmento, aims for flexibility and elegance, achieved by the intersection of planes, and the combination of wood, stone and glass throughout the facade and its interiors.

Lobby

Veranda

Living/ Dining

This building consists of five 4-bedroom condo units plus a duplex penthouse, and it's located in a prominent area in the City of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State.

Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro

The Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro was built in the early 1900's, as part of the Mayor's project to modernize Rio de Janeiro's downtown area, following French design principles. The theatre was designed by Brazilian Francisco de Oliveira Passos and French Albert Guilbert and it was inspired by the building "Palais Garnier" in Paris.