Copacabana news

Luxury group LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton will acquire Belmond Ltd – which owns, operates or manages 46 hotels, restaurants, train and river cruise properties ... More

Belmond Castello di Casole has opened in the Tuscan countryside, set within a castle dating to the year 998 in an untouched nature reserve between ... More

The new home for Brazil’s 50-year-old Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) is entering the final stages of its development, with the Diller Scofidio + ... More

Architects Chad Oppenheim and Arthur Casas have collaborated to create a dynamic hotel nestled between dilapidated 1950s apartment buildings on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach. ... More

US architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has been announced as the design team tasked with creating the vision for a new Centre for Music ... More

An abandoned Brazilian palace designed by iconic late architect Oscar Niemeyer is to finally see the light of day, with hotel group Oetker Collection opening ... More

A second Emiliano Hotel is opening next month in Rio de Janeiro, with a location on Copacabana Beach and a focus on wellness. The hotel ... More

Officials have inaugurated Rio’s Olympic City Museum one month ahead of the opening ceremony for Brazil’s 2016 Olympic Games. The new museum and digital centre ... More

An Adidas billboard depicting a snarling Luis Suarez has proved unintentionally popular with tourists – who have been queuing to pose with various body parts ... More

The centrepiece of the fourth annual Paris Plage festival – which runs for a month until 21 August – is a 3km long artificial beach ... More

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that the nine cities in the bidding race to host the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games have ... More