On the afternoon of Sunday, January 8th, exactly a week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist popularly known as Lula, to his third term as the President of Brazil, a march ...

Security forces have detained 1,500 people after supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília Thousands of demonstrators ransacked the Congress ...

“Corrective rape, slaps, and stabbings – they want to keep us silent, but not even death can silence us. Women alive!” With these words, social worker Elisandra “Lis” Martins ended her speech at the ...

The first paved highway across the Brazilian Amazon began, in the nineteen-seventies, as a narrow, hard-won cut through dense rainforest. The road, which connects the northern port city of Belém with ...

The director-general of the Brazilian Federal Police, Andrei Passos Rodrigues, said on Thursday (Nov. 14) that the explosions recorded in Brasília Wednesday night (13) are not an “isolated event,” ...

Brasília, the capital city of Brazil, is a marvel of modernist architecture and urban design, planned by Lúcio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer. This aerial night view captures the glowing Brasília ...

SOME COUPLES spend holidays on beaches. My husband and I bond over journeys to often-barren areas, visiting works by mostly dead architects. When we were engaged in Rio de Janeiro 17 years ago, we ...

From the 19th century onwards, with the Industrial Revolution, the growing population, and the ever-more pressing demands for urban space in Europe, the first reflections on the city emerged. More ...

This Brasília apartment, a duplex unit designed by CoDa Arquitetura, is perched inside one of the Brazilian capital's modernist superblocks. Titled Moiré, the home has just been renovated, bringing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oscar Niemeyer, who died last week, was a controversial giant. Best known for designing a new capital city for ...