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 ...

Brasília was never meant to evolve organically. Designed in the late 1950s by Lúcio Costa, the Plano Piloto deliberately separated housing, work, commerce, and government into distinct zones.

There is a popular legend that 19th-century Italian priest Don Bosco, the founder of the Catholic Salesian Order and a revered saint, had a prophetic dream in 1883 that predicted a flourishing, ...

After the Summit of South American leaders in Brasilia, the 11 attending presidents reached a consensus on cooperation and integration in the region. Read also: Amid controversy in Brasilia regarding ...

Wildfires engulfed the conservation area of Brasilia National Park on Monday and smothered the capital in smoke as the country grapples with a historic drought. The fire was reported to be ...

On Tuesday over 490 firefighters battled blazes that in just over 24 hours consumed 2,000 hectares of the Brasilia National Park conservation area outside the city of Brasilia, with Federal Police ...

You don't have to be an architecture expert to have heard of Brasilia. Contemporary Brazil's renowned capital was purpose-built in 1960, featuring a grand urban plan by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer as ...

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 ...