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Key Contemporary Architectural Developments in South America

post updated 7 January 2026

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Brazil Architecture. Buildings are mostly located on the Atlantic coast. We aim to include Brazilian buildings / projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.

We cover completed Brazilian buildings, new building designs and architectural exhibitions. We also post architecture competitions across Brasil. The focus is on contemporary Brazilian buildings but information on traditional architecture is also welcome.

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Rio de Janeiro Architecture Walking Tours, south east Brazil – our 59th city
Celebrated Brazilian buildings in Rio include the recently-opened Museum of Tomorrow designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, Cidade da Musica Roberto Marinho, the Ministry of Education building by Oscar Niemeyer / Le Corbusier, the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum and the Oscar Niemeyer Popular Theatre. Major architects with buildings in Rio de Janeiro include Richard Meier & Partners, BCMF Arquitetos, Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, AECOM and Andrade Morettin Arquitetos.

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Key Brazil Building Designs in 2025, chronological:

17 December 2025
Edificio Miro Tower, Curimataí, Buenópolis, Minas Gerais
Architect: Henrique Hoffman

photo : Jomar Bragança

11 December 2025
Millenial Building Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Estado
Design: Henrique Hoffman

photograph : Jomar Bragança

29 November 2025
Colégio Domum, Juazeiro do Norte, Cariri region, Ceará state, northeastern Brazil
Design: Lins Arquitetos Associados

photo : Joana França

27 November 2025
Biblioteca dos Saberes, Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Nova neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil
Design: Kéré Architecture

render © Kéré Architecture

16 September 2025
Baffi Restaurant, Porto Allegre, Rio Grande do Sul, southern region of Brazil
Architects: Alencar

photo : Leonardo Finotti

22 June 2025
Salma Tower, São Paulo
Architectural Design: aflalo/gasperini arquitetos

photo © Pedro Mascaro

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Brazil Building Designs in 2024, chronological:

17 April 2024
SAP Labs Latin America, Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Allegre, Rio Grande do Sul, southern region of Brazil
Architect: Hype Studio + Triptyque

photos by Marcelo Donadussi, Vini Dalla Rosa

10 February 2024
HELP – Teaching Hospital and Research Laboratories, Campina Grande, Northeast Brasil
Architecture: Contemporanea Arquitetura e Interiores

photo : Vilmar Costa

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Brazil Buildings News in 2016 to 2023, chronological:

5 November 2023
Ambiental Santos Headquarters, Paraná
Design: Solo Arquitetos

photo : Eduardo Macarios

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17 August 2021
Gávea Contemporâneo Rio de Janeiro
Design: Cité Arquitetura

photo : Wagner Ziegelmeyer
The Gávea neighborhood has the presence of one of the largest universities of the city, many schools, theaters, several bars, and restaurants, as well as cultural centers and the municipal planetarium. At the same time, its tree-lined streets have a certain calmness.

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9 Aug 2016
Casa Italia for the 2016 Olympics, Rio de Janeiro
Interior design: Claudia Pignatale / Secondome with Edra

photo from architects

3 Aug 2016
Amazon Sports Complex Building, Manaus
Design: gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

photo : Marcus Bredt
Built for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, this stadium in Manaus will now host six matches (four men’s, two women’s) in the group stages of the Olympic Games 2016 football tournaments.

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19 Sep 2013
Linhares Dias House, Brasília, Brazil
Design: Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco

photo : Joana França
This house is located in a residential area site close to the Paranoa Lake in Brasília. Searching the maximum integration for the social areas of the house we decided to put all the program under one big roof.

15 Aug 2013
New Mineirão Stadium, Belo Horizonte
Design: BCMF Arquitetos
Pampulha, Belo Horizonte: A modernist building in a modernist landscape.
Inaugurated in 1965 (original design by Eduardo Mendes Guimarães Júnior e Gaspar Garreto) as the second largest stadium in the world, the Mineirão Stadium is located in the surroundings of the Pampulha Lagoon, close to Oscar Niemeyer’s and Burle Marx seminal modernist architecture and landscape works, one of Belo Horizonte’s main postcards.

28 May 2013
Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil – added
Design: Oscar Niemeyer Architect

photo : John Lima

28 May 2013
Casa Nova Lima, near Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, south east Brazil
Design: Denise Macedo Architects Associates

photo : Gustavo Xavier
The house should harmonize two important needs: large area in brickwork walls for the exhibition of the arts, and facades with glass so that the external landscape could be seen in the House. Thus a 14m deep gallery was created, and double-height space of 6m, offering a display area of 190 sqm. The wall of the left side of this photo gallery has allowed the creation of a 28m-long ramp.

8 Apr 2013
Pavilhao Humanidade Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Design: Carla Juacaba

photograph : Leonardo Finotti
The architects proposed a scaffold building, translucent, exposed to all weather conditions: light, heat, rain, sounds of waves and wind, reminding man of his frailty when compared to nature.

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói – MAC, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro – added
Date built: 1996
Design: Oscar Niemeyer Architect

photo © Marcela Grassi

4 Apr 2013
Casa Varanda, Brazil
Design: Carla Juaçaba

photo : Fran Parente
A house made for the granddaughter of great architect Sergio Bernardes and a Colombian artist was a challenge. At first they wanted the house to have caracteristics of Casa Lota made by his grandfather in 1950, from which we kept some materials such as the ceiling. The development of the project was very interactive.

2 Apr 2013
Casa Rio Bonito, near Rio de Janeiro
Design: Carla Juaçaba

photo : Nelson Kon
This building is a weekend home in Brazil. Two voids puncture the roof at either end of the structure, washing the interior surface of the stone bearing walls with light and creating a stark contrast between the weight of the structure and lightness of the roof and floor which float above the rough ground.

Symbolic World Cup Structure Competition, Rio de Janeiro
[AC-CA] Design Contest

image from competition organiser
The aim of this International Competition is to design a free standing World Cup Structure in the heart of Rio de Janeiro during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Teatro Popular de Niteroi, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro – added
2007
Design: Oscar Niemeyer Architect

photo © Marcela Grassi

18 Jan 2013
Studio R São Paulo, Brasil
Design: studio mk27 – Marcio Kogan with Gabriel Kogan + Oswaldo Pessano

photograph : Fernando Guerra
The Loft Studio faces a small urban square and opens entirely to the outside. The photography studio’s inner space flows into the side gardens of the building.

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Brazilian Architecture News Highlights from 2012

14 Sep 2012
Botanique Hotel & Spa Brazil, Campos do Jordão, western Brazil
Design: Candida Tabet Arquitetura

photo © Marcio Scavone
Following proudly in the footsteps of giants of Brazilian architecture like Oscar Niemeyer and Affonso Reidy, the Candida Tabet Arquitetura will be unveiling their latest masterpiece, Botanique Hotel & Spa. Nestled amid the untouched hills and mountains of Campos do Jordão and situated between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the idyllic complex will be set on 700 acres.

7 Sep 2012
Minerião Stadium, Belo Horizonte
Design: gmp – von Gerkan, Marg & Partners

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12 Aug 2012
Toblerone House, São Paulo
Architecture and interiors: studio mk27 – marcio kogan + diana radomysler

photograph : Nelson Kon
The basic concept of this property design is a free first floor with large sliding glass doors which support a wooden box. The first floor contains the living room, utilities and kitchen. The second floor contains the three bedrooms, a den and home theater. A simple structural logic pervades the building: with two lines of columns.

12 Aug 2012
V4 House, São Paulo
Architecture: studio mk27 – marcio kogan + renata furlanetto. Interiors: studio mk27 – diana radomysler

photograph : Nelson Kon
Contemporary architecture design fequently forces architects to over-optimize spaces and push the site to the maximum. This property is a rare ‘anti-example’. It doesn’t fully occupy the land but instead finds a more suitable relationship between building and landscape.

4 Jun 2012
Carmo Advogados Cuiaba, western Brazil
Design: Márcia Miranda + Éder Bispo – arquitetos (MMEB arquitetos)

picture from architects
Because it is an expansion, an attachment, we chose a harmonious integration with the existing building, on a site of modest dimensions, with a program of needs that conditioned the use of its whole construction potential.

22 May 2012
Convida Suape Brasil, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, near Recife, north east Brazil
Design: Broadway Malyan

picture from architects
Launch of Broadway Malyan’s vision for new Brazilian city of 100,000.
The masterplan vision for Convida Suape, a new city in Northeastern Brazil, designed by global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan, has been officially launched by the practice’s client, Moura Dubeux Engineering and Cone S/A.

11 May 2012
Mineirão Stadium, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
BCMF Arquitetos

image : BCMF Arquitetos
Brazil is big and young. The state of Minas Gerais, for instance, has the surface of France with the population of Holland. Its capital, Belo Horizonte, now has more than three and a half million inhabitants and is barely 100 years old.

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Brazilian Office Buildings

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Brazilian Building News Highlights from 2011

26 Aug 2011
Casa dos Ipês, São Paulo, SP
studio mk27 – marcio kogan + lair reis

photo © Reinaldo Cóser
In this house concrete is used in a radical manner throughout the upper volume: the large concrete ‘box’ appears to be floating above a glass volume. In the living room the doors open entirely, diluting any division between interior and exterior.

26 Jul 2011
Byte Building, Brasilia
DOMO Arquitetos Associados

image from architects
The Byte building is an office building with approximately 2.900sqm in the outskirts of Brasília. It is a building that houses the administrative headquarters of a school that gives courses through the web. It has open-floor office spaces and a ground floor space for training courses and exhibitions.

4 Jul 2011
Rio Olympic Port Competition
João Pedro Backheuser / Ignasi Riera – winners

image from architects
The winning design for this development, which aims at the revitalization and redevelopment of the port city of Rio de Janeiro, was announced at the Brazilian Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB-RJ) in Rio de Janeiro.