New Brazil architectural design projects with building news and architecture images, plus architects background. Find key new real estate in Minas Gerais Estado, Southeast Brazil, from across this South American country.
Major recent structures include Diagonal by Pininfarina at Fortaleza waterfront, Ceará, Brasil. This international design firm, known around the world for bringing its distinct automotive heritage and sleek aesthetic to the built environment, plan a 53-story, branded residential tower, with Italian styling.
Also worth noting are Galeria Simões de Assis, Curitiba, Paraná, by Arquea Arquitetos, and Marinho da Serra by Vazio S/A. Interesting properties in the area include Colégio Pro Mundo Building, Aracaju, Sergipe state, by Coletivo de Arquitetos, and Etapa School, Vila Mascote, São Paulo, by biselli+katchborian.
The building design was a partnership between Pritzker Prize winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Metro Arquitetos office. It brings together a theater with capacity for 1,300 spectators, a museum with 3000 sqm of exhibition area, plaza, library, auditorium and café.
Design: SuperLimão Studio + André Piva Arquitetura + Laika Design
This small, richly detailed building integrates internal and external spaces. Free of doors the bar appropriates the street corner. Peeling walls reveal the structure of the building, framing and enhancing the kitchen and counter.
Edra is pleased to announce its partnership with Casa Italia for the 2016 Olympics to be held this summer in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, between August 3 and August 21.
Teatro Popular de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro building, Brazil – by Oscar Niemeyer, famous Brazilian architect – Popular Theatre in Niteroi, Modern architecture
Design: gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. Built for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, this stadium is in Manaus in the Amazon Rainforest.
Design: Vigliecca and Associados
Built for the Games, the facility will stage the modern pentathlon fencing matches, as well as the group stage of the women’s basketball tournament.
Design: Vigliecca and Associados
One of the most technically complex Rio 2016 facilities, the Whitewater Stadium holds 25 million litres of water in its two canoe slalom courses: one for the competitions, measuring 250 m, and a 200-m training course.
Design: gmp Architects
The main arena layout consists of circular stands in monolithic concrete over a structured slab with braced radial raker beams that support the precast elements of the sitting area.
Design: gmp Architects
The temporary building structures of stands and roof, conceived for later reutilization, were designed to allow simple disassembling, transportation and later assembling operation.
Design: Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP. Completion of this architecture practice’s first project in South America: a seven-story, sustainable structure incorporating generous natural light, and a unique composition of concrete, glass, and innovative vertical gardens.
Design: Vazio S/A architects. Considered for a time Brazil’s largest cinema, Cine Theatro Brasil was built in 1932 at an important intersection in downtown Belo Horizonte. Structural Archeology sought to activate this now unused space, coating the roof framework with a translucent screen, and turning the bleak void into an active venue.
Design: ANGATU Arquitetos
Center of artistic and cultural activities – the challenge was to gather in the same building activities such as classical ballet, choral, ballroom dancing, art exhibitions and martial arts.
Design: Fernandes/Arquitetos Associados. Maracanã, officially called Estádio Mário Filho, was built to serve as the flagship venue for the 1950 World Cup. It was meant to become the biggest football stadium in the world.
Design: Studio MK27. The Txai House merges elements of the vernacular colourful Bahian Houses with the precise lines of Brazilian Modern architecture. It is located in front of a beautiful beach in the city of Itacaré in the Brazilian northeast.