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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Few cities show bombast and brashness like Brasília. Fulfilling a promise in Brazil's constitution to have a federal capital built in the country's hinterlands, President Juscelino Kubitschek ordered ...

BRASÍLIA, Brazil — The Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, where the U.S. will meet Sweden in Friday’s women’s Olympic soccer quarterfinals (noon ET, NBCSN), is a sprawling 72,000-seat monstrosity built ...