São Paulo firm AMZ Arquitetos has built a home in the city that expands onto a verdant lawn, while a series of planted spaces open to the sky continue the greenery through the property. More about Plant-filled courtyards create natural enclaves in Brazilian home by AMZ Arquitetos
The Brazilian president has moved out of his official residence in Brasília, designed by the late architect Oscar Niemeyer, after sensing "bad energy" and fearing it could be haunted. More about Brazil's president flees "ghosts" at his Oscar Niemeyer-designed home
Destroying architecture education was the "greatest evil" performed by Brazil's military dictatorship, according to Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who has just been awarded the Royal Gold Medal. More about Brazil's dictatorship caused lasting damage to architecture education, says Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Living spaces at this house near Brasília are contained in a cluster of offset boxes with full-height glazing that faces out onto gardens slotted between them. More about Gardens are interspersed through Brasília home by Samuel Lamas
These photographs offer a look inside Oscar Niemeyer's recently reopened Hotel Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, which features interiors by Brazilian firm Debora Aguiar Arquitectos and US practice Studio VOA. More about Oscar Niemeyer's revamped Hotel Nacional features interiors by Debora Aguiar and Studio VOA
A hotel designed by famed Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer has reopened as a luxury resort in Rio de Janeiro, after being closed for over 20 years. More about Oscar Niemeyer's Hotel Nacional reopens in Rio after 20 years
A metal and glass volume containing offices rests on a concrete base that encloses a public courtyard at this headquarters for the National Confederation of Municipalities in Brasília. More about Glazed block cantilevers over reflecting pool at Brasília offices by Mira Arquitetos
A walled garden filled with tropical plants flanks a glazed hallway at this house in the Brazilian town of Franca, which is influenced by the country's modernist architecture. More about MF+ Arquitetos creates modernist-inspired house with walled garden in Brazil
Fernando and Humberto Campana have become the latest designers to create a shop interior for Aesop – using traditional Brazilian cobogó bricks. More about Campana brothers use hollow terracotta blocks for São Paulo Aesop store
A translucent fold-up doorway separates a studio from a living room in this apartment created for a São Paulo-based illustrator who works from home. More about Apartment in São Paulo transformed to create home and studio for an illustrator
Twelve years after designing the Galeria Millan exhibition space in São Paulo, architects Sérgio Kipnis and Fernando Millan have added an annex that reveals its contents to the street. More about São Paulo's Galeria Millan opens new exhibition gallery with huge sliding doors
Tall translucent doors open two sides of this theatrical rehearsal space created by Brazilian architect Alan Chu for an actor in São Paulo (+ slideshow). More about Alan Chu adds rehearsal studio with huge doors to the home of a Brazilian actor
This office block in Rio de Janeiro features a triple-layered facade with a window wall, a screen of plants, and a thick lattice of perforated metal (+ slideshow). More about Bernardes Arquitetura completes Rio office block fronted by perforated metal and plants
Floor-to-ceiling grids of wooden shelves cover double-height walls inside this luxurious apartment in São Paulo by local office Studio MK27 (+ slideshow). More about Studio MK27 creates giant shelving units in São Paulo penthouse
The form of this chair by designer Pedro Venzon is based on the curves and shapes found in architecture left over from Portugal's colonisation of Brazil (+ slideshow). More about Pedro Venzon bases stackable Pudica chair on Brazil's colonial architecture
Graduate shows 2016: Bartlett graduate Adrian Yiu has proposed revitalising a disused quarry in Rio de Janeiro's oldest favela to create an independent enterprise zone for local people (+ slideshow). More about Adrian Yiu's Anthropophagic Territory is a conceptual self-sustaining quarry
Rio 2016: after it hosts the women's basketball tournament at this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, this venue will be overhauled halfway through the games to accommodate fencing (+ slideshow). More about Youth Arena by Vigliecca & Associados will transform mid-Olympics
Rio 2016: London architecture firm Wilkinson Eyre has created a trio of conjoined venues to host a range of indoor events at this month's Olympic games (+ slideshow). More about Wilkinson Eyre's Arenas Cariocas form the largest venue at Rio's Barra Olympic Park
London-based Yoo Design Studio has created plant-filled interiors for Rio de Janeiro's Yoo2 hotel, which opened last month ahead of the city's Olympic games (+ slideshow). More about Tropical interiors by Yoo Design Studio feature at first Yoo2 hotel in Rio
Architecture studio MAPA has revealed the latest project from its prefabricated building company Minimod, a pair of factory-made houses at an estate surrounded by mountains in Brazil (+ slideshow). More about MAPA builds two prefabricated houses in Brazilian mountain landscape