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Dramatic Modernist Hilltop House with Exterior Spiral Staircase

Casa Baldo is an elegant modernist house nestled on a hilltop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil designed in 1969 by famed architect

Oscar Niemeyer

.

A dramatic white exterior spiral staircase reaches the top of a stack of box-like structures.

Niemeyer designed the house in the affluent Jardim Botânico district for his wife’s sister Carmen Baldo. Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão purchased the home in 2011 from Baldo’s descendants.

A 5-year renovation project by

Siqueira + Azul Arquitetura

integrated extensions to the property while respecting Niemeyer’s architectural philosophy, and restored the home to its original splendour.