TURNING POINTS · 1960
Brasília, Brazil
Planned by Lúcio Costa with buildings by Oscar Niemeyer, Brasília was inaugurated in 1960. The target is the Praça dos Três Poderes.
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The story, as a puzzle
A capital from scratch.
In the late 1950s, a country built a new capital from nothing on its central plateau, on a plan shaped like an aeroplane or a bird. Pin its Square of the Three Powers.
Where it is
Think you'd have found it on the map?
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