Question

The design of an art museum in this country, which once displayed paintings that looked like they were floating on glass easels, has two bright red parallel beams that support a suspended glass box. (10[2]-5[1])The reuse (10[1])projects of an architect in this country involved turning a drum factory into the SESC Pompéia and an office into a theater. An architect from this country completed an art gallery shaped like an eye and a national museum (10[1])shaped (10[1])like a white concrete dome while in his 90s. The (-5[1])Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi did (10[1])most of her work (10[1])in this country, the home of landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. (10[1]-5[1])An architect from this country (10[1])built a UFO-shaped contemporary art museum in Niterói (10[2])and a hyperboloid-shaped (10[1])cathedral (10[2])located (10[2])along (-5[1])the Monumental Axis. For 10 points, (10[1])name (10[1])this country whose planned capital was designed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Brazil [or Brasil; or Federative Republic of Brazil or República Federativa do Brasil]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y21100%0%19%105.14

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Arthur Delot-VilainYale AMcGill A3310
Rodrigo RoseMIT AMichigan A3310
Albert ZhangColumbia BWUSTL A33-5
John MarvinChicago BNorth Carolina A3510
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AColumbia B7410
Tracy MirkinFlorida AYale B7510
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech APenn State A85-5
Halle FriedmanNYU AMinnesota B9110
Joel MilesMinnesota AHarvard A9510
Justin WytmarIllinois AChicago C106-5
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AStanford A10610
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AOhio State A11110
Ashish SubramanianDuke AFlorida B11910
Joelle SmartRutgers AMaryland A11910
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina APurdue A12210
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AJohns Hopkins A12310
Rohan ShelkeUC Berkeley BWUSTL B12310
Walter ZhangBrown ACornell B12410
Gio MazzeoVirginia AImperial A12410
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BClaremont A125-5
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AHouston A13110
Karan GurazadaTexas ARutgers B13210
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont AGeorgia Tech B14610
Robert CondronChicago CIllinois A14610
Ani PerumallaPenn State AGeorgia Tech A14610