🏛️ Pampulha Modern Ensemble

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The Pampulha Modern Ensemble is an urban project in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state of Brazil. It was designed around an artificial lake, Lake Pampulha, in the district of Pampulha and includes a casino, a ballroom, the Golf Yacht Club and the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi. The buildings were designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer, in collaboration with the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian Modernist artists, and structural engineer Joaquim Cardozo.

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Pampulha Modern Ensemble is a cultural World Heritage site in Brazil, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Pampulha Modern Ensemble was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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