Brasilia
Brazil's federal capital since 1960 is a formidable display of grand, vast boulevards, modernist architecture, and administrative ambition. Laid out like an airplane, ivory-tinted buildings along the Monumental Axis' avenue cross with the Residential Axis' rows of vegetation-draped facades. Paranoá Lake centres Brasilia's activity, while the Cathedral of Brasilia's modern silhouette is but one stunning example of design and art manifesting in this city on the world's cutting edge.