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The Praça Raul Soares (English: Raul Soares Square) is a major square of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The square is named in honor of Raul Soares de Moura, former governor of Minas Gerais . It is situated at the confluence of four major avenues: Amazonas, Augusto de Lima, Bias Fortes and Olegário Maciel.
The Casa do Baile (English: "Ball House") is an architectural landmark in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.It is part of the Pampulha Modern Ensemble, a complex of buildings constructed around Lake Pampulha in the 1940s that represents some of Niemeyer's earliest works in his distinctive modernist style utilizing curved forms.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil Coordinates: 19°55′08.84″S 43°56′19.18″W / 19.9191222°S 43.9386611°W / -19.9191222; -43.9386611 The Praça Sete de Setembro (English: 7 September Square ), often called Praça Sete , is a square in downtown Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais , Brazil.
Belo Horizonte [5] is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. [6] It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas.
With its distinctive curved shape and horizontal concrete brise-soleil, the building is considered an icon of modernist architecture in Brazil. [3] Niemeyer was inspired by the curves of the mountains around Belo Horizonte when designing the building. [4] The 12-story structure contains 22 apartments of various sizes and layouts. [5]
The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (Portuguese: povos indígenas no Brasil) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups, who have inhabited the country prior to the European. The word índios ("Indians"), was by then established to designate the people of the Americas and is still used today in the Portuguese language to designate these ...
On September 10, 2013, the Municipal Prefecture of Belo Horizonte finally inaugurated the Kubitschek Residence Museum as a cultural space administered by the Municipal Culture Foundation. [8] The space came to join the Pampulha Modern Ensemble , which also includes the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi , the Pampulha Museum of Art, and the Casa ...
The company was founded in 1948, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais by the Andrade and Gutierrez families. As of 2013, Andrade Gutierrez is the second largest construction company in Brazil, with over a thousand projects carried out domestically and globally. [2] It has branches in 44 countries and a net income of 8 billion BRL. [3] [4]