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Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece
Wednesday, 9th February 2011 by Kyle Kusch
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of Brasília was built in 1960 to serve as the new capital of Brazil. One of the greatest civic engineering achievements in history, the city core’s unique aeroplane-shaped design (the ‘Pilot Plan’) has been enshrined as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The original plan was to house 500,000 people along the…











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