Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and built between 1963-1971 it is officially known as "Central Institute of Science". The Big Worm has a total length of 696 meters, it was made of prefabricated reinforced concrete.
In that building there are 7 institutes and 3 faculties which are part of the University of Brasilia.
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!macacos !engineering !architecture I'm gonna be honest, it's a hideous building 
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A lot of brutalist architecture is interesting and cool to look at, but I wouldn't want to live in the vicinity of it. It sucks your soul out.
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It reminds me of something
@Neon_Needles said several years ago on /r/drama about how (paraphrasing) Russia is full of sad depressed people whose only export is alcoholism and they live in ugly buildings designed by r-slurs. Unironically Shakespeare could not have written better poetry.
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