!bookworms !architecture !macacos the first pic is from the Mario Andrade Library in São Paulo. It contains 3.2 million books on its inventory, it's the 4th largest library in Brazil and the largest municipal library.
The main building was concluded in 1942 and underwent restoration works in the 1970s and the 2000s.
Pics from the inside.
And here's the public library of the Great State of Paraná, located in Curitiba. It was built in the 1950s.
And here's the National Library in Brasilia
Soulless as everything else on that city but not as bad as the library of the University of Brasilia.
And finally, The National Library of Rio de Janiero.
The largest in the country with almost 10 million volumes. It was inaugurated in 1910.
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libraries still buy the fricking books you frickin' commie
it's a fricking subscription based rental service subsidized by taxes
It's neoliberal as FRICK!!!
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!edgelords please shatpen this comment for me i can't do it because im still a fricking frickin v amp
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If you think about it libraries were the ancestors of e piracy.
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Wrong, motherlover!
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Old timey authors used to seethe about them hard.
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poast
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Neoliberal, not lolbertarian sweety
!neolibs
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Those chairs in the Curitiba Library lookin' pretty 1970s just like your ideology.
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It would be a real shame if someone were to light up those buildings on fire
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Eastern
Europe 
in the jungle 
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Except they've literally never benefitted the world ever at all not even once
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They perfected the art of slum making, at least give them credit for that
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They kept Confederate culture alive
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Good thing Brazil is not a real country
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I'm going to Brazil in a couple months, any recs???
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Which city will you visit?
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Sao Paulo and Rio
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For São Paulo I recommend Parque do Ibirapuera, the Teatro Municipal, the library on the pic (unironically), the Museum of Ipiranga, the Museum of Zoology USP, Palacio dos Bandeirantes, a visit through Avenida Paulista, go to Liberdade Neighborhood and eat some sushi there and go to a fair (maybe Feira praça da República) and try some pastel. The city has a myriad of bars and restaurants you can pick as well, italian and lebanese restaurants are good and there's haute cuisine ("international" style restaurants) if you can afford.
For Rio I honestly don't know much, I just went there once for a few days. Ipanema, Copacabana, bairro da Lapa, pão de Açúcar and Cristo Redentor are some standard stuff. If you like football there's the Maracanã in RJ and Morumbi in SP.
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Is it dangerous? Will someone steal my phone and passport!!!
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No white people have ever been to Brazil, ever. You will be captured and put in a cage as a circus amusement or possibly worshipped as a god
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As is fitting
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They're both large cities so be careful and take precautions.
SP is safer than Rio though so be more careful on the latter. The thing with Rio is that the favelas surround well-off neighborhoods and turisty areas.
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omg the national
library is so pretty 
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U might think u stupid
But u ain't half as stupid
As the neighbor that built a library
In brazil
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Nice buildings!
...now, I know that Brasilia has a lot "futuristic" architecture as a purpose-built new city in the mid-20th century...but, uh, are there any cases of such architecture there that, you know, doesn't look dated? Or even ok to watch?
Heck, I'll take any sort of building that you think looks fine lol
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It's not just Brasilia
First building is the state government of Minas Gerais, the second a courthouse in Belo Horizonte.
This is a public building in Goiânia
First is the headquarters of the government of Paraná, second a courthouse in Curitiba.
Most !macacos public buildings have this style, which fits the spirit of Brazilian bureaucracy, faceless and soulless.
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Wtf is with brasilia and ugly butt buildings for public construction?!?
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Jesus Brazil is ugly.
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Rio's library is nice.
Miss me with the brutalist architecture in Brasilia though
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in high school i used to kill class a lot to read there. they have a great selection and there are also a few small music concerts in the non-library part of the building. it's really quiet and good, most people there are either college students or haitians in suits studying law books, who are (or used to be) probably the most hard-working immigrant group.
the problem there is that you can't touch shit
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Brasilia is a deeply evil and unright city.
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It's on par with the city planning of gulf countries, except its in a jungle and not in a desert
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Most geographically literate dramatard
!macacos
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What even is Goiás to begin with? It's like a veldt isn't it?
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Tropical savanna, so yeah, like the velds.
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Tbh they should burn down that jungle (takes up way too much space) and put a mall there or something
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Do you think people know all the ecosystems of one of the most eco diverse countries? 50 states is already enough, I don't need to know the one thousand regions and cities in brazil with totally opposite climates and cultures!
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Brasilia is also in a desert like hellhole
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