Brazil is on the tips of millions, even billions, of tongues these days, and the World Cup, which Brazil stands a good chance of winning, is only partially responsible for all the talk. The last year or two has seen Brazil confidently emerging as a global player. Monocle‘s coverage in May of Brazil’s ambitious attempts to recharge its diplomatic brief around the world provides one index of this shift. I hope that the increased attention to Brazil will involve a rediscovery of the country’s outstanding modernist architectural traditions. Here, AlexSven captures perfectly the scale and space-age magic of Brazil’s long experiment with modernism with this image of Oscar Niemeyer’s Niterói Contemporary Art Museum.
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