The Brasil Arquitetura office, formed in 1979, is an architect’s association led by Francisco Fanucci and Marcelo Ferraz, having executed emblematic projects such as the Yellow Quarter in Berlin, Germany, the Rodin Museum in Salvador, Bahia and the Praça das Artes in São Paulo, among many others. Both were very close to Lina Bo Bardi at important moments in her professional life, including the construction of Sesc Pompéia. In several projects, they faced the challenge of rehabilitating old buildings, such as the Museu do Pão, Praça das Artes, Rodin Museum and Sesc Pompéia itself. We spoke with the office to know more about this type of intervention. 

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• Architects

  Brasil Arquitetura

• Location

  Dom Viçoso, Brazil

• Project Architects

  Francisco Fanucci, Marcelo Ferraz and Felipe Zene

• Project Area

  240.0 m2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Nelson Kon

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• Architects

  Brasil Arquitetura

• Location

  São Paulo, Brazil

• Project Architects

  Francisco Fanucci, Marcelo Ferraz

• Collaborator

  Anne Dieterich

• Architecture Team

  Anselmo Turazzi, Beatriz Marques, Cícero Ferraz, Fabiana Paiva, Felipe Zene, Fred Meyer, Gabriel Grinspum, Luciana Dornellas, Pedro Del Guerra, Victor Gurgel

• Project Area

  360.0 m2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Leonardo Finotti

In honor of International Museum Day we’ve collected twenty compelling museum projects. In this round up you’ll find a truly global selection; from Wang Shu's Ningbo Historic Museum in China and Tod Williams + Billie Tsien's Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia to Monoblock's Contemporary Art Museum in Buenos Aires, see all of our editors’ favorites after the break!

Wiel Arets, Dean of the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Dirk Denison, Director of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), have announced the inaugural MCHAP shortlist – 36 “Outstanding Projects” selected from the 225 MCHAP nominees.

“The rich diversity of these built works is a testament to the creative energy at work in the Americas today,” said Arets. “When viewed alongside the innovative work by the MCHAP.emerge finalists and winner, Poli House by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen which we honored in May, we see the evolution of a distinctly American conversation about creating livable space.” See all 36 winners after the break.

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• Architects

  Brasil Arquitetura

• Location

  São Paulo, Brazil

• Architects in Charge

  Francisco Fanucci and Marcelo Ferraz

• Area

  295.0 m2

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Nelson Kon

Praça das Artes, designed by Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci (Brasil Arquitetura) and Marcos Cartum, has won Building of the Year at the Icon Awards in London. The project competed with works by great names in international architecture: Herzog & de Meuron (with their Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, New York), Renzo Piano (The Shard in London), SANAA (the Louvre-Lens, in the north of France) and Hugh Broughton Architects (the Halley VI Research Station, the world’s first relocatable research facility, located in Antartica).

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• Arquitetos

  Brasil Arquitetura

• Localização

  Av. São João, 281 - Centro São Paulo - SP, Brasil

• Autores

  Francisco Fanucci e Marcelo Ferraz + Luciana Dornellas

• Project Area

  28500 sqm

• Ano do projeto

  2012

• Fotografias

  Nelson Kon

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• Architects

  Francisco Fanucci, Marcelo Ferraz, Cícero Ferraz Cruz, Anne Dieterich, Bruno Levi, Gabriel Grinspum, Luciana Dornellas, Pedro Del Guerra

• Location

  Hanko, Finland

• Finnish Architecture Team

  Ville Niiranen and Mikko Kääriäinen

• Digital Model

  Carlos Arellano

• Area

  330.0 m2

• Project Year

  2007

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• Architects

  Francisco Fanucci and Marcelo Ferraz

• Location

  Ilópolis - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• Co Author

  Anselmo Turazzi

• Area

  330.0 m2

• Project Year

  2007

• Photographs

  Nelson Kon