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Brazil Issue Extra - Great, but what do the buildings actually look like?

OK OK, so you've read the feature about Oscar Niemeyer, the man who built a city out of curves...

OK OK, so you've read the feature about Oscar Niemeyer, the man who built a city out of curves, and probably you watched the extended remix of the interview on VBS—and perhaps you even read the shitty reason why Santiago Fernandez-Stelley, who conducted the interview, did so in his swimsuit. While that’s all well and good, probably you’d like to see what these buildings look like, right? Assouline is releasing a massive book of just that, and by massive we mean big enough to build a house out of itself--the thing is like three-by-five…feet. It costs something more than £500, which, even though the photos are beautiful enough to make those of us who are as concerned with architecture as we are with Bear Grylls' scout badges actually consider wanting it, is insane unless you’re some kind of shah. So. Go ahead and click down-there for a preview of some of the images.

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