Bike Tour of the 4 Scales of Lucio

After meeting at our agency, we headed to the Television Tower pilotis. It's the first stop.

After the stop at the TV Tower, we will pass by the TV Tower Craft Fair.

On this circuit we visit the famous Clube do Choro, another project by Niemeyer – a concert hall for around 500 people, where the Choro School also operates.
Raphael Rabello. This is the first music school of its kind in Brazil, and where currently more than a thousand students learn to play cavaquinho, mandolin, tambourine, guitar, saxophone, flute, accordion, harmonica, violin and viola caipira. The Clube do Choro stage was transformed into a “solo
sacred” after Paul McCartney, on November 28, 2023, gave a surprise, intimate and historic show, reminiscent of the performances at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

The Ulysses Guimarães Convention Center is one of the most modern facilities in Brazil, with capacity for 9,400 people simultaneously in a space of 54,000 m². The original project was designed by Rio de Janeiro architect Sérgio Bernardes (1919-2002).
It is one of the largest in the country, housing five auditoriums and 13 modular meeting rooms. In addition, it has a support structure with cafeterias, dressing rooms and a medical center. All of this five minutes from the federal and local government headquarters and the city's main hotels and fifteen minutes from the airport.

One of the largest urban parks in the world

Renato Russo Hall

The SQS 308 - Superquadra Sul 308 Court (located in Asa Sul) was chosen to be the city's model court, so Lúcio Costa designed it and Burle Marx was in charge of its urbanism and landscaping and Banco do Brasil built it. On February 19, 1962 it was inaugurated.

Inaugurated in June 1958, the Nossa Senhora de Fátima Church was the first church located in the residential sector. Raised at the request of Dona Sarah Kubitschek for a grace achieved in favor of the cure of her daughter. Athos Bulcão's tiles - stylized figures of the Dove of the Divine and the Star of the Nativity - line the outer walls.

Here, cyclists know a Superquadra. The Residential Scale of the urban project of the city conceived by the genius Lucio Costa. It is not the first Superquadra, the Quadra Modelo, but the configuration is similar due to the projections of the buildings, the lots of local shops, schools and leisure area.

Headquartered at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and known as Palácio dos Arcos, Itamaraty is one of Niemeyer's best known works.

The Sanctuary was built in honor of the patron saint of Brasilia: St. John Bosco

Authored by architect Oscar Niemeyer, the Cathedral marked a milestone in the history of modern architecture and Brasilia.

We will pass through Rua das Farmacias. A street where commerce is predominantly pharmacies due to the proximity to the South Medical and Hospital Sector

Praça do Povo, in the South Commercial Sector (SCS), was renovated in 2021 and its project was chosen by the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil (IAB) as one of the regional winners of the IAB Awards 2021 – Centenary Edition. The initiative took the award in the Midwest in the Urbanism, Planning and Cities category.

In the decision, the award judging committee detailed that the project “stands out for its functionality and, above all, for the merit of initiating a process of improving the urban quality of the area in question.” It's worth checking out - the renovation of the place was inaugurated in October 2021 by the Government of the Federal District and allowed the multifunctionality for the practice of skateboarding, presentation of shows and the organization of areas for kiosks.

Planned in Brasilia's original plan, Conjunto Cultural had a project commissioned by architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1970s

The Setor Comercial Sul region is central to Brasília. During the weekdays, it is one of the main pedestrian flows in the city due to the services and institutions that are installed there. The proximity to the bus station and Esplanada dos Ministérios also reinforce this flow. This, added to other factors, imposes a genuine cultural diversity. In recent years, some public places have undergone a process of revitalization and there are some buildings by important architects such as Lelé and Oscar Niemeyer. The South Commercial Sector reflects the dynamics of the Gregária Scale and with the new uses that have been given to the spaces, it stands out - "If it were another Brazil, another Brasilia, another time, the South Commercial Sector would be the Champs Élysées that so inspired Lúcio Costa or La Rambla or any other European urban area with intense collective interaction.
It's all there, ready to be used, used." (Conceição de Freitas - writer).

The first unit of the Sarah Hospitals Network is a rehabilitation center specializing in locomotion and orthopedic diseases. Architect design. They are notably humanized hospitals that do not look like hospitals. The long stay of patients is softened by large, multicolored, airy environments with natural ventilation and lighting. The buildings adopt a rationalized construction system that facilitates the distribution of installations and the flexibility of the internal areas. In the main building, the facades are marked by the vierendeel beams that, together with the advances and setbacks of the floors, create terraces-gardens with double height ceilings integrated into the internment areas.

João da Gama Filgueiras Lima (Lelé) [1932 -2014] was born in Rio de Janeiro and graduated from UFRJ in 1955. He worked with O. Niemeyer and L. Costa. He was a professor at UnB. Its architecture is marked by the attention to construction methods, the detailing of the projects, and a rationalization of the work.

Inaugurated on April 21, 1960, the Three Powers Square is a large civic space. Created by Lucio Costa and designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the square was inaugurated in 1960, the same day as the inauguration of the Federal Capital.

Inaugurated on February 27, 1992 in the commemoration of Lucio Costa's 90th anniversary, the space is an underground construction that houses the Brasilia Model and the Plano Piloto Tactile Model

Brasilia Classic Mall

Situated on the third vertex of Praça dos Três Poderes, opposite the Planalto Palace, it was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer with original design by Lucio Costa.

Created by Oscar Niemeyer, the Claudio Santoro National Theater is one of the most beautiful works in Brasilia.

After passing by Cultura Inglesa, Aliança Francesa and Praça 21 de Abril, we head to Espaço Cultural Renato Russo 508 south, which encompasses rooms, galleries and theaters with varied profiles to host artistic and cultural presentations in different languages. There are two theaters: Teatro Galpão and the renovated Teatro de Bolso.

National Library of Brasilia

Place where the President of the Republic dispatches.

Pantheon of the Fatherland

The National Congress is a visual landmark in the city's landscape, the main one at the apex of the Three Powers Square, at the beginning of the Esplanade of Ministries.

Burle Marx Garden

Ministries Esplanade