Yesterday, 21 April, it was 50 years ago that the new capital of Brazil, Brasília, was inaugurated. Construction took 6 years. In 1987, only 27 years later, the entire plan was pronounced Unesco World Heritage.
In 1960 president Juscelino Kubitschek formally opened the Plano Piloto, the central area of the city with its monumental axis and its north and south residential wings, all built in the middle of the desert in Goiás, central Brazil. Yesterday, the ceremony was apparently performed by Donald Duck. Much can change in 50 years…