Brazil

Zaha Hadid Architects is due to begin work on its first project in South America with a luxury residential high-rise on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Casa Atlântica's design is defined by its spine-shaped facade and it comprises a total of 12 floors.

A new reactive LED façade has been installed at the Hotel WZ Jardins in São Paulo, Brazil. The façade responds to sounds, air quality and people's interaction with a smartphone app. It is part of a project that explores the "Hacked City" and how technology can bring positive change to cities.

In the 21st century, undersea factories are becoming a reality, but only as unmanned robotic platforms that are rarely visited. To show how these will be built and operated, GE has created a 3D virtual exhibit for its new research center in Rio de Janeiro.

Drawing inspiration from the social issues plaguing much of the Brazil's 2014 World Cup, a pair of French architects have developed a proposal to re-invent the stadiums as complexes for low-cost housing that could provide affordable living for 20,000 Brazilian people.

In 2012, Brazilian 4x4 manufacturer Troller, which was purchased by Ford Brazil in 2007, provided a sneak preview of what its next T4 utility vehicle would look like with its TR-X concept. It has folded the look and feel of that concept into the new production T4.

A new smartphone software is helping visually impaired people in a Brazilian city to use public buses with more ease and efficiency.

Inspired by the native Tupi-Guarani people, Team Brasil's entry in the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe is a high tech, sustainable house that embraces a tradition-meets-high-tech ethos.

Jetman Yves Rossy takes us on a unique air tour of Rio de Janeiro.

Kia's Soul Flex uses ethanol, which is 40% cheaper than gas in Brazil, gets a 44 percent improvement in fuel efficiency, with power and torque figures also a slight improvement compared with the existing petrol model.

THINK Electric vehicles are heading south.