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.
Pic of the construction
More pics of the building
!macacos !engineering !architecture I'm gonna be honest, it's a hideous building 
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Brasilia is a case study on why all mid-century architects and urban planners should've been rounded up and shot
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poor countries that built car centric cities are the dumbest. at least in the US incomes were really
high and every household could afford 2 good cars.
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Brazil is extremely car-centric and the traffic jam is awful in cities like São Paulo and Brasilia.
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Yeah, at 5-6k$/capita 20-30% pop owns cars by 10k$/capita that goes up to ~50-60% and I think it most stays around that zone. China's at around that percentage too. I saw one of our own states at the former category and it was insane traffic cause the area is still technically mostly village like and so road infra is too with that i.e basic two lane roads.
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GDP per capita in Brazil is very unequal. It's close to 9k dollars nominal (17k dollars PPA) on a nationwide basis but around 18-19k dollars nominal in Brasilia.
Speaking for Brazil, the state with best infrastructure is São Paulo. All the highways between cities are "duplicated" and very high quality, but the city of São Paulo has an insane traffic despite there being several lanes.
Look at Marginal Tietê
Paulistanocels lose years of their lives stuck in the traffic jam.
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One more lanecels have a point. Ideal I think would have been a 250km/hr train with halts every say 20km and each of these stations will have car parks+bus network connecting to surrounding areas if you are to have combination of not living in a shoebox and working in a city center. Bullet trains are a good example but they're IMO still too expensive for regular use by anyone other than executive classes so a semi high speed commuter train with affordable daily fare for all classes would be better. There's some projects like that taking off here, I have high hopes. Suburban living+car commute model much of new world copied because land was cheap and plentiful there will always have chokepoints later on, though laying out the base is easier and cheaper, countries like America can power through with ridiculously expensive mega infra projects but others can't.
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Bullet trains are very costly, even California is struggling to build them because of regulations and indemnifications. Brasil also had it's Rio-São Paulo bullet train project which is being revived as people either have to go by car or by plane, like in the US there's a lot of air traffic between relatively close cities which is a waste.
More from São Paulo !engineering !neolibs this is what one-more-lanecels did to Brazil.
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Best city I've seen was designed mid century
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