Brasilia, Brazil — Some visitors still sneer that this capital, bulldozed from the wilderness 36 years ago, is a city without a soul. But many of metropolitan Brasilia’s nearly 2 million residents ...

Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, completed its construction in 1960 with the intent of using modernist architecture as a tool to forge a futuristic utopian society. The city was designed around urban ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Known for: Paranoa Lake, uber-modern Oscar Niemeyer-designed Metropolitan Cathedral, the only World UNESCO Heritage city built in ...

Brasília can be described in many ways: a monument to architectural modernism, the fulfillment of a political ambition, a city hostile to pedestrians. Whatever its description, three names stand out ...

Oscar Niemeyer the Brazilian architect who died this week will be best remembered for Brasilia, the city he helped design in the late 1950s. Niemeyer's modernist architecture made Brazil's federal ...

Oscar Niemeyer designed a metropolis where none had stood previously when he envisioned Brazil’s capital. Jonathan Glancey looks at the success rate of ‘new cities’. The view from high hotel windows ...