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Niemeyer’s modernism celebrated in Oscar Ibirapuera, an example of 21st-century São Paulo living
Perkins&Will completes Oscar Ibirapuera, next to Niemeyer’s modernist landmark park in São Paulo, Brazil
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Nick Waplington photographs architect Joseph Grima for Stone Island’s ‘research project’
Marking the latest Stone Island Ghost collection, Joseph Grima is photographed by Nick Waplington against the backdrop of Oscar Niemeyer’s 1970s-built Palazzo Mondadori in Milan
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This holiday retreat in Lebanon celebrates exposed concrete while embracing its natural setting
East Architecture Studio, with a base in Lebanon and the UAE, joins the ranks of the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2023, our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios
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34th São Paulo Bienal arrives at Luma Arles for first European presentation
An exhibition of highlights from the 34th São Paulo Bienal is at Luma Arles, marking its European and tour finale
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Casa Higienópolis: a São Paulo mansion reborn to display the best of Brazilian style and history
Casa Higienópolis is the latest revival project by retail company Iguatemi, a mansion merging neoclassical style and Brazilian flair
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Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian architecture uncovered
Jason Oddy’s photographic study of Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian buildings, set alongside research and archival documents, explores the architecture’s inseparable relationship to revolutionary politics in a new book from Columbia University Press, titled The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
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Oscar Niemeyer (1907 - 2012)
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Espasso celebrates long-lost furniture designs by Brazilian greats Oscar Niemeyer and Jorge Zalszupin
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Modern icons: R & Company impresses with its exhibition of Brazilian design
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Brazilian jeweller H Stern celebrates seven gilt decades with a travelling gold show
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Fernanda Marques slots a swimming pool into a Brazilian apartment
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Oscar Niemeyer’s 1972 Hotel Nacional in Rio de Janeiro finds a new lease of life
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Surreal perspectives of architecture align in a duet of London exhibitions
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Andreas Angelidakis blends antiquity, digital culture and urban modernity at Paris’ Espace Niemeyer
We speak to Greek artist Andreas Angelidakis as he unveils Center for the Critical Appreciation of Antiquity, a fantastical installation staged inside an Oscar Niemeyer-designed auditorium, commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary
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Travel to Brasilia with photographer Vincent Fournier
We tour Brazil's mesmerising capital through the lens of artist and photographer Vincent Fournier and his latest book, Brasília: A Time Capsule
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Annie Morris’ totemic inauguration of Château La Coste’s Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion
British artist Annie Morris becomes the first artist to take on the newly completed Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion at Château La Coste, Provence
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ENG Shanghai: Minority Report-inspired retail for the Gen Z mind
ENG Shanghai opens its second luxury fashion concept store aimed at Gen Z customers, inside the city’s TX Mall, featuring artworks by Carlos Saez, robotic arms and cyborg-like mannequins
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Second life: Etel gives Lina Bo Bardi's furniture a new lease on life
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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
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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
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Architecture in the words of Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Great modernist Paulo Mendes da Rocha passed away on 23 May 2021 aged 92. Here, we revisit the interview he gave Wallpaper* in 2010 for our Brazil-focussed June issue, talking about architecture, awards and his home country
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Revisiting the concrete architecture of Belgian icon Juliaan Lampens
Once the lonely passion of a few devotees, the concrete architecture of Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens is a revelation; just don't call him a brutalist
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A tribute to Oscar Niemeyer at the United Nations, New York
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Niemeyer pavilion enriches the landscape at Château La Coste
Château La Coste's latest architecture addition is a sculptural pavilion designed by the late, great Oscar Niemeyer
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We pay tribute to architect Ruy Ohtake (1938 – 2021)
Brazilian architect Ruy Ohtake, the master of Brazilian modernism, has passed away in São Paulo, at 83 years of age. To honour his memory, we revisit the Tomie Ohtake Residence, which he designed in 1968 for his parents and named after his mother, abstract painter Tomie Ohtake. Scroll down, to read this interview from the Wallpaper* archive, first published in 2001
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Modernist masterwork Brasilia turns 60
The capital of Brazil was inaugurated on 21 April 1960, following a four-year construction period and containing landmark works by a roaster of Brazilian modernists; this year, Brasilia celebrates its 60th anniversary.
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Daniel Simon and Benedict Redgrove on designing and shooting ‘Robocar’
