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A Igreja São Francisco de Assis da Pampulha, em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, foi inaugurada em 1943. O projeto arquitetônico da igreja é de Oscar Niemeyer e cálculo estrutural de Joaquim Cardoso. Foi o último prédio a ser inaugurado do Conjunto Arquitetônico da Pampulha.
É considerada a obra-prima do conjunto. No projeto da capela Oscar Niemeyer faz novos experimentos em concreto armado, abandonando a laje sob pilotis e criando uma abóboda parabólica em concreto, até então só utilizada em hangares. A abóbada na capela da Pampulha seria ao mesmo estrutura e fechamento, eliminando a necessidade de alvenarias. Inicia aquilo que seria a diretriz de toda a sua obra: uma arquitetura onde será preponderante a plasticidade da estrutura de concreto armado, em formas ousadas, inusitadas e marcantes.
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Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.
