[57], The city has been both acclaimed and criticized for its use of modernist architecture on a grand scale and for its somewhat utopian city plan. Today we travel to Brazil with Millie, an English teacher and budding music producer/composer living in São Paulo (editor’s note: that’s the city where my husband, Rodrigo, is from and where we visit every year!). Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira became Brazil's 21st President in 1956. was set in Brasília. It was designed by architect Alexandre Chan and structural engineer Mário Vila Verde. As the city has matured, some of these have gained adornments, and many have been improved by landscaping, giving some observers a sense of "humanized" spaciousness. The two small axes around the Monumental axis provide loops and exits for cars to enter small roads. The building also has a library, a heated Olympic-sized swimming pool, a music room, two dining rooms and various meeting rooms. Seven matches of the 2014 World Cup were held in … Oscar Niemeyer was the chief architect of most public buildings, Joaquim Cardozo was the structural engineer, and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer. The Central Bank of Brazil unanimously decided to keep its benchmark interest rate at an all-time low of 2.00 percent on 20 January 2021, as widely expected. Other notable buildings are Buriti Palace, Itamaraty Palace, the National Theater, and several foreign embassies that creatively embody features of their national architecture. Niemeyer's and Cardozo's project of Cathedral of Brasília is based in the hyperboloid of revolution which sections are asymmetric. Costa's plan was not as detailed as some of the plans presented by other architects and city planners. The International Dance Seminar in Brasília has brought top-notch dance to the Federal Capital since 1991. International teachers, shows with choreographers and guest groups and scholarships abroad are some of the hallmarks of the event. The capital was Salvador, a city in the Northeastern part of Brazil that is close to the area where sugar plantations were most successful during colonial times, the … [71] Brasília also hosted the football tournaments during the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro. Part of the budget of the Federal District Government comes from the Constitutional Fund of the Federal District. The capital city of Brazil is Brasilia, a master-planned city built in the late 1950s where nothing existed before in the Mato Grasso plateaus. Beer Is Always Served In Small Glasses. The rectangular lawn is surrounded by two eight-lane avenues where many government buildings, monuments and memorials are located. This city is situated in the Brazilian Highlands. Set well apart from the city are satellite cities, including Gama, Ceilândia, Taguatinga, Núcleo Bandeirante, Sobradinho, and Planaltina. Today, the majority of Brazil's population is concentrated on the Atlantic Coast. The rest of the Federal District is considered by IBGE to make up Brasília's metro area.[1]. However, Brazil temporary housed the Portuguese Royal Court during the last 14 years of being a colony of Portugal. The city is also home to Uniceub BRB, one of Brazil's best basketball clubs. [49], The city also hosts a varied assortment of art works from artists like Bruno Giorgi, Alfredo Ceschiatti, Athos Bulcão, Marianne Peretti, Alfredo Volpi, Di Cavalcanti, Dyllan Taxman, Victor Brecheret and Burle Marx, whose works have been integrated into the city's architecture, making it a unique landscape. [15], The Residential Axis was intended to contain areas with intimate character and is considered the most important achievement of the plan; it was designed for housing and associated functions such as local commerce, schooling, recreations and churches, constituted of 96 superblocks [pt] limited to six stories buildings and 12 additional superblocks limited to three stories buildings;[14] Costa's intention with superblocks was to have small self-contained and self-sufficient neighborhoods and uniform buildings with apartments of two or three different categories, where he envisioned the integration of upper and middle classes sharing the same residential area.