Rio's New Museum of Image and Sound

Discoteca Help, Rio's notorious disco/prostitution house in Copacabana, closed last Thursday. The disco will be demolished and, on the property, the new Museum of Image and Sound will be built, starting in 2010.

MIS has the largest collection of Brazilian music, as well as 40,000 photographs and over 1,000 recorded interviews. The museum is located in central Rio.

New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the authors of the winning project, were inspired by Burle Marx's designs of the wavy patterns on Copacabana's sidewalks. You can find MIS project details on the Diller Scofidio + Renfro website.