Casa do Cantador

Niemeyer designed this two-storey hall in Ceilândia, well outside the planned Pilot Plan, as a home for the repente and cordel singers of the Northeast who had migrated to build the capital. It is also called the Palácio da Poesia, and it still works as an arts centre rather than a monument. Sources date the commission to 1986 and the opening to 1988.

Building Type

Arts centre

Height (meters)

6.39

Number of Levels

2

Street Address

QNN 32, Área Especial G, Setor N, Ceilândia Sul, 72220-327

Website

www.df.gov.br/casa-do-cantador/

Wheelchair Accessible

Yes

Category: Culture & History

Tags: niemeyer, ceilandia, arts-centre, repente

Coordinates: -15.840011, -48.108553

Part of Oscar Niemeyer's buildings in Brasília

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