Itamaraty Palace
Paths outward
- Location
- Brasília, Brazil
- Year
- 1962
- Typology
- Office
- Materials
- Ceramic, Concrete, Glass, Marble, Metal cladding, Steel, Stone
- Context
- Modernism, Brazilian Modernism
- Map
- Open location
The Itamaraty Palace, also known as the Palace of the Arches, is the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. It is located in the national capital of Brasília. The building was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated on April 21, 1970. It is located to the east of the National Congress building along the Ministries Esplanade, near the Praça dos Três Poderes. One of its most iconic features is the gravity defying spiral interior staircase.
