A well-connected engineer's wild idea, one of the first passenger cable cars in the world, now a symbol of Rio.

Haussmannian urban renewal in the tropics, a facade competition, and a precursor to the Central Bank of Brazil.

The big bang of Brazilian modernism...but someone else won the initial design competition.

Messed this one up, because it turns out Rio de Janeiro expanded its iconic Copacabana Beach in a major engineering project in the late 1960s.