Something for your eye... and soul!

If you plan to come over to Brazil you may not want to miss some architectural highlights:
Last year the new auditorium by Oscar Niemeyer was opened in São Paulo´s Ibirapuera Park. The 800-seat concert hall, which looks like a white concrete wedge with an undulating red tongue poking out of its front, closes the final chapter of the masterplan for Ibirapuera Park, dreamt up by the 97-year-old Niemeyer and the late Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx in 1955.

Looking for a hotel in Brazil which impresses you by its architecture and interior design? Unfortunately hard to find. But Portuguese hotelier João Vaz Guedes opened and wonderful new beach resort called Warapuru in Itacaré, in Bahia.
He spotted a Unesco World Heritage site, a secluded cove of Engenhoca, on a 30km stretch of Bahian coastline beneath mountainous terrain carpeted with virgin tropical rainforest. Then he commissioned Anouska Hempel and her team of architects, headed up by Australian Russell Jones, to create a hotel so glamorous it would resemble a Bond film. You can stay in the hotel or acquire one of the villas in the resort.