Cityscapes

'Orelhão' telephone booths

Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil

orelhões [Brazilian Portuguese]
Telefones de Uso Público [Portuguese]
Brazilian 'Orelhão' telephone booths

Description

The iconic Brazilian telephone booths –colloquially called orelhão (meaning 'big ear') – put into operation from 1972 on, where designed by the Brazilian-Chinese designer and architect Chu Ming Silveira.

General Information

location function
culture
people/creator

Location

local language location name
Muriaé, Brasil [Portuguese]

Image characteristics

maximum image resolution
3,760 × 5,534  pixel
31.8 × 46.9 cm (300 dpi)
capture date
image processing
colour corrected
copyrights
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