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Gustavo Capanema Palace
Modernist office building in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gustavo Capanema Palace (in Portuguese, Palácio Gustavo Capanema), also known architecturally as the Ministry of Education and Health Building, is a government office building in the Centro district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As the first modernist project in Brazil, it is historically important to the architectural development of Modernism in Brazil and has been placed on Brazil's UNESCO tentative list.
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in downtown Rio de Janeiro.