A once glamorous hotel, demolition, vacancy, and failed revitalization, ultimately saved by municipal government.

Brazilian eclecticism, an attribution controversy, and a little influence from the Chicago and St. Louis world fairs.

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.