The Bossa Nova Museum is located at Leblon, an especial neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro, home of many of our most reputable musicians, writers and poets. In a piece of land formerly occupied by a police battalion, a new showcase for Brazilian culture and art will be built, with its focus on the Bossa Nova music. It is a project that opens itself up to the city, inviting the entrance through a major plaza that surrounds the building, enriched by a careful landscape design project. The building itself, comprising 5,000m², pays tribute to the very especial expression of Brazilian culture, reposing gracefully on the terrain as the keys of a piano keyboard. Its design aims at reflecting, as the lyrics of Tom Jobim’s Girl from Ipanema would say “a sweet swing on the way to the sea”.