Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Club Nox

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


Monday, November 24, 2008

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.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

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"