Boulevard de la Mer / Avenida do Mar, Deauville, Normandia, França

Boulevard de la Mer / Avenida do Mar, Deauville, Normandia, França
Deauville - França
N. 455
Fotografia - Cartão Postal


Nota do blog: Copacabana Beach's architecture in the 1920s was inspired by France's Normandy, more specifically by Deauville. Indeed, Rio's and Petrópolis' architecture were very much French. That was a precious heritage left by Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil from 1840 to 1889.
After Brasilia was built in the late 1950s, most of Rio's old French style buildings were replaced by horrific "Tropical Bauhaus" (a.k.a. "Brutalist Architecture"); futuristic concrete buildings inspired by Oscar Niemeyer's legendary bad taste. Niemeyer was a staunch communist and created Brasilia inspired by Stalin's post-WW II appalling Soviet architecture.