Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche provides a rich historical backdrop for the first international show from Brazilian design ...

Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall is rolling out new rules to control beachside activities due to come into force on June 1.

RIO DE JANEIRO — If you have been to Rio de Janeiro' beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, caipirinha cocktails sold by hawkers, chairs sprawled across the ...

Brazilian police said on May 4 that they had thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga's historic concert that drew more than 2 million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on May 3.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — If you have been to Rio de Janeiro’ beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, caipirinha cocktails sold by hawkers, chairs ...

Art Deco has never really gone out of style ... the Angel City Press tome includes an essay by author and architecture historian Alan Hess about the 20th century style known for bold geometric ...

And of course the city that kicked it all off, Paris, is a haven for Art Deco lovers. The Palais de Tokyo and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées are two notable landmarks for this style.

In colonial cities and provinces like Calcutta and Bom­bay, Art Deco emerged as a rejection of British neoclassicism that then dominated urban architecture. In Calcutta, for instance, the first Art ...

Brazilian police on Sunday said they thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga's free concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, in ...

It was on April 29, 1925, that the Paris Exposition formally introduced the Art Deco style to the world. It took 10 years for the form to come to Madras. In between, Bombay took to it, the ...

Art Deco was the preeminent decorative movement of the era, a highly crafted and more elaborate take on modernism and streamlining that found favour in everything from architecture to early audio ...