Oscar Niemeyer's 1968 media palace on Rua do Russel, with gardens by Burle Marx.
Landmark buildingThe Edifício Manchete, at Rua do Russel 804 facing the Parque do Flamengo, is one of the few Oscar Niemeyer buildings in the South Zone: a long modernist slab on pilotis, designed in 1965 and inaugurated in 1968 as the headquarters of Adolpho Bloch's media empire, with landscaping by Roberto Burle Marx.
After a full retrofit in the 2010s it now operates as triple-A office space, and the theater Niemeyer designed inside — completed in 1973 — runs today as the Teatro TotalEnergies. For residents of Glória and the Russel corridor, it is the architectural counterpoint to the Hotel Glória one block north.
Address: Rua do Russel 804, Glória, Rio de Janeiro
Adolpho Bloch commissioned Niemeyer to house Bloch Editores and the Manchete magazine and broadcast operations, and the building served as the nerve center of Rede Manchete television from 1983. The company's bankruptcy in 2000 left the building sealed and empty for a decade.
BR Properties bought it in 2010 and carried out a complete retrofit that restored the Niemeyer facade and reopened the complex as corporate offices and a theater — one of the city's cleaner examples of a modernist landmark being put back to work.
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