Section III — Material Legacy
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Concrete outlives the blueprint
More than 300 civic structures from the Brasilia era remain in active service — six decades of weathering, zero structural failures.
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75
50
25
0
18
1940s
47
1950s
94
1960s
71
1970s
52
1980s
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