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Inauguration of Brasilia
New Capital
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On 21 April 1960 Brazil inaugurated its new capital, built from nothing on the central plateau in under four years to Lucio Costa's airplane-shaped plan, with Oscar Niemeyer's cathedral, congress and palaces at its heart. It is the largest realized experiment in modernist city planning, World Heritage listed while barely thirty years old.
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Designer of the capital's principal civic buildings.
Oscar Niemeyer designed the cathedral, congress buildings and presidential palaces at the heart of Brasilia.
Brasilia's functionally zoned master plan is a direct, frequently cited built application of Athens Charter urban planning principles.
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