Pampulha Modern Ensemble in Belo Horizonte

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The Pampulha Modern Ensemble in Belo Horizonte is a landmark complex of modernist buildings and landscape design, celebrated as an early masterpiece of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and a key work in 20th-century modern architecture.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural ensemble
modernist architectural complex
architect Oscar Niemeyer
architecturalStyle Brazilian modernism
modernism
category Modernist architecture in Brazil
World Heritage Sites in Brazil
client Juscelino Kubitschek
constructionEnd 1943
constructionStart 1940
country Brazil
culturalContext Brazilian modernist movement
hasPart Casa do Baile
Church of Saint Francis of Assisi
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surface form: Pampulha Art Museum

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surface form: Pampulha Casino

Pampulha Lake
Pampulha Yacht Golf Club
hasUse cultural
leisure
recreational
religious
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site
listed by IPHAN
inception early 1940s
influenced Brasília urban and architectural design
landscapeDesigner Roberto Burle Marx
locatedIn Belo Horizonte
Minas Gerais
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surface form: Pampulha district
locatedOn shore of artificial Lake Pampulha
materialUsed reinforced concrete
municipality Belo Horizonte
notableFor azulejo tile panels
curvilinear forms
early masterpiece of Oscar Niemeyer
integration of architecture and landscape
reinforced concrete free-form structures
role in development of modern architecture in Brazil
region Southeast Region of Brazil
significantArchitect Oscar Niemeyer
significantLandscapeArchitect Roberto Burle Marx
significantPeriod 20th-century architecture
structuralEngineer Joaquim Cardozo
UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria (i)
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UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear 2016
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteType cultural

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Oscar Niemeyer designed Pampulha Modern Ensemble in Belo Horizonte
Oscar Niemeyer designed Pampulha Modern Ensemble in Belo Horizonte
this entity surface form: Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Pampulha
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subject surface form: Pampulha Modern Ensemble
this entity surface form: Pampulha Casino
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subject surface form: Pampulha Modern Ensemble
this entity surface form: Pampulha Art Museum
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subject surface form: Pampulha Modern Ensemble
this entity surface form: Pampulha district