31 BCMF (see 015) was already built in 2007 for the Pan-AmericanGames, on the basis that a similar competition venue would be used for the Olympic Games, including the shooting, equestrian, archery, hockey and modern pentathlon facilities. Two years earlier, in 2014, the Maracanã Stadium will have a field day, when it will host Brazil’s FIFA World Cup final on July 14. And we’ve come full circle, because Rio de Janeiro is currently getting back to its roots. Since 2010, it has been revivingits harbour by a large city development project called Porto Maravilha.The measures among others encompass the new construction of two new museums: the MAR, the Museu de Arte do Rio (see 008), which was accomplished by Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura in 2013, and the Museu do Amanhã, which has still to be built. Both of them, and all the buildings and infrastructure projects still to come, will transform the city considerably and — in respect of the ongoing pacification of the favelas — hopefully deeply.
Palácio Gustavo Capanema (1936 – 1945), various architects
Rio de Janeiro
Antônio. In the flattened area in the very heart of the city, the Centro,arose the tremendous conic section of the Catedral Metropolitana(1964 – 1976) by Edgar de Oliveira da Fonseca(Avenida República do Chile) and several administrative buildings, among them the Headquarters of Petrobrás(see 005). As a matter of fact, the 1964 military coup disrupted Brazil’s modern movement and only with the end of the military dictatorship in 1985 — and with the improvement of the economic situation in the early 1990s — did the land see a new boost. In 1983 – 1984 the parade of the Samba schools, centrepiece of the famous Carnival of Rio de Janeiro, got a new home: the Sambódromo (see 010) by Oscar Niemeyer, who had just come back from exile. Since its renovation in 2012, it counts amongst the first venues of the 2016 Olympic Games — the Sambódromo will play host to the archery events and the start and finish of the marathon — to open to the public. The National Shooting Centre by
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