[Rio-2016 News]

It is possible.

OWWWW, I loved this picture. But I think it will be very similar to Sydney Olympic Stadium

[The Maracana Cluster]

There'll be no Olympic Flame/Torch burning at Maracana Stadium. Only for the Engenhao Stadium.

Who told you?! Have you called Carlos Arthur Nuzman?!

[Rio-2016 News]

I agree on Windsor tower being a "monster" in a neighbourhood where all the building have almost the same height. It makes the landscape weird...

But to say Rio is not known for its archtecture???

For sure, not like Brasilia or Istambul unique cities in the world about archtecture, but Rio receive visitors (specially from abroad) every year just to see the diversity of styles and what the call the "decades line" of the city!

And, indeed, I watched a documentay from Canada about this too.

If you walk from Downtown to Barra da Tijuca/Recreio, you will see Portuguese traditional Housing style from the 1800s in Old part of Downtown, Neo-Classic buildings 1900s in Gloria/Lapa, 1910s and 1920s Art Déco in Flamengo Beach and go on like a timelapse line of styles and buildings...

And one of the most cool about Rio's downtown it's mixture of styles of new and old.

Unfortunatelly, this is a kind of tourism, Rio could explore better abroad. There is a lot to see and discover in the city, and in the rest of Brazil too.

Amazing picture! Is the third old building in the left the Paço Imperial?

[Rio-2016 News]

IOC, this is the city you chose to host the SOG in 2016. Have you a "B" plan? It is still time. This won't change: drug dealers support some politicians.

Video: Bandits of a gang arriving in Vila Cruzeiro, with guns to face the police. Pay attention to the kind of weapons they have.

http://video.globo.c...RUZEIRO,00.html

Well, Mr. Firefox, everybody knows the problems of Rio de Janeiro, even the IOC, don't worry. It's truth, in the city are happening several attacks in the last days by drug dealers, but you forgot in mentioning just one point about this situation: This attacks are happening in retaliation by the ocupation of the police in the shanty towns (before occupied by drug dealers). The works of the police will no stop because of those attacks. The drug dealers are being rounded up by police day by day. The legacy of the olympics already began, even that Rio seems unsafe now. In 6 years those problems will not happen more. Will be just a problem of the past. Don't worry, the games of the XXXI Olympiad will be a great success.