The Cidade Administrativa Presidente Tancredo Neves is Oscar Niemeyer's last major architectural project — a vast state government complex on the northern edge of the metropolitan area, completed in 2010. The central building, the Palácio Tiradentes, is a long horizontal slab raised on six massive concrete pillars, hovering more than 145 metres clear of the ground from one end to the other.
It is not a tourist site in the usual sense — most of the buildings are working government offices — but the central palace and its surrounding plaza are open to the public and visiting it adds an important late chapter to a tour of Niemeyer's career. The trip out is about thirty minutes by taxi from the centre. Best done in combination with a Pampulha morning.