Art, architecture and travel in Brazil

Rio's Emiliano hotel, and its swish staff uniforms, evoke Copacabana's glory days

By Daven Wu Last updated 7 October 22

Brasilia in pictures: 50 great buildings, 50 years

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 7 October 22

Serge Cajfinger swaps Paris for a Bahia beach house by Marcio Kogan

Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan designs a dream house out of concrete blocks and a eucalyptus-stick pergola for Paule Ka founder Serge Cajfinger

By Amy Serafin Last updated 7 October 22

Prada moves to a modernist Brazilian beat at its new Miami boutique

By Ali Morris Last updated 7 October 22

At home with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão

we talk to artists about what they’re making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. Tracked down at the foot of a volcano in Costa Rica, Adriana Varejão discusses her Oscar Niemeyer-designed house, the eroticism of pulsating meat, and her solo show ‘Talavera’, on now at Gagosian, New York

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated 7 October 22

Modernism and nature meet in this contextual Brazilian home

Gabriel Garbin’s architecture studio utilises site-specific design and gentle exposure to nature for this modernist-inspired but very Brazilian home in Porto Feliz, São Paulo

By Martha Elliott Last updated 6 October 22

Casa Floresta is a radical transformation of a traditional Brazilian house

Estúdio Zargos upends convention with this modernist extension to an existing house in Belo Horizonte

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 6 October 22

Fernanda Marques designs Brazilian house centred on its relationship with nature

Brazilian architect Fernanda Marques reveals the expansive Casa Jabuticaba in her home country's city of São José dos Campos

By Josh Fenton Last updated 6 October 22

Sergio Rodrigues creates a shop-in-shop at New York's Espasso

By Scott Mitchem Last updated 5 October 22

Tropical Shed in Manaus brings together work, fun and nature

Brazilian architect Laurent Troost has created Tropical Shed, an industrial-inspired, flexible commercial space in Manaus, a city in the Amazonas region

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 5 October 22

The Nomaa Hotel is one more reason to book a ticket to Curitiba, Brazil

By Daven Wu Last updated 30 September 22

Interviews with Brazil’s leading architects

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 29 September 22

Brazilian furniture pop-up Studio 55 makes waves in West Hollywood

By Michael Slenske Last updated 29 September 22

Marcio Kogan’s modernist rooftop gym in São Paulo

By Scott Mitchem Last updated 28 September 22

Happy hour: a vibrant clock tower installation tops off Galeria Leme

By Elly Parsons Last updated 27 September 22

Simply the breast: flick through the Brazilian sex comics of Carlos Zéfiro

By Felipe Taborda Last updated 21 September 22

High and dry: a Brazilian beach house maximises indoor/outdoor living

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 21 September 22

A Portuguese show recounts 90 years of Brazilian architecture

By Yoko Choy Last updated 21 September 22

Retracing the modernist steps of Lina Bo Bardi and Studio d’Arte Palma

By Laura May Todd Last updated 20 September 22

Remembering Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928-2021)

Paulo Mendes da Rocha – one of Brazil's most important architects and one of the world's last great modernists – has passed away in Sao Paulo at the age of 92

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 14 September 22

Haunting photos capture the secrets of Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia ghost house

Photographer Jason Oddy takes us through his series on Casa Niemeyer, the house in Brasilia that legendary modernist Oscar Niemeyer designed for himself and lived in while the Brazilian capital was under construction

By Jason Oddy Last updated 14 September 22

Towering presence: House in Joanopolis by UNA

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 13 September 22

Fab 40: Brazil

By Melina Keays Last updated 8 September 22

Heavy metal: a raw shell envelopes an art and car collection in this São Paulo gallery

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 6 September 22