Architects
Location
Praça Central - Paranoá, Brasilia - Federal District, BrazilDesign Team
Alexandre Bragança, Augustin de Tugny, Fernando Arruda Guillen, Norberto BambozziTrainees
Alessandra Valadares, Carolina Soares, Luiza Martini, Paulo Menicucci, Priscila Dias de Araújo, Roberta VasconcellosTotal Area
42.000m 2Area
7000.0 sqmProject Year
2000Photographs
Casa DigitalLocation
Praça Central - Paranoá, Brasilia - Federal District, BrazilProject Year
2000Photographs
Casa DigitalArea
7000.0 m2
Text description provided by the architects. The Free Press Monument is a gesture in glass.
Crystal clear, solid, but as delicate as freedom itself. It represents a perennial fight and reflects the culture of our people, based on common sense.
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Comes from there this translucent, dynamic shape which tears the space in two moments:
One for advancing in the facts, in the truth, and another, free to expose itself and speak loud at the world.
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That is how a spot on the federal capital emerges in order to shelter the International Press Center but, mostly, it is introduced, the home for the symbol of all journalists.
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