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Shopping dos Antiquários (popular name given to Shopping Cidade Copacabana) is a bold project by Henrique Mindlin, built from 1953 in Copacabana. The shopping center was opened by President Juscelino Kubitschek in 1960. The building has a modern design, with elliptical ramps in the style of the New York Guggenheim, that allow visitors to circulate on four floors. At the end of the ramps is an internal garden whose landscaping refers to the famous Copacabana Beach boardwalk. The Shopping is formed by two large galleries connected by smaller galleries and has two main entrances: Rua Siqueira Campos and Rua Figueiredo de Magalhães. There is also an entrance on Joseph Bloch Street. At Shopping you can find everything: clothes, accessories, porcelains, carpets, clocks, bibele, hairdressers, a supermarket, furniture, rare records, electrical supply stores, gift shops, chocolatiers, snack bars, thrift stores and various antique shops. In the antique shops you can find all kinds of bric-a-brac: old tiles, toys, porcelain, cupboards, talk arias, chandeliers, Holy art, Persian rugs, paintings, sculptures, wall clocks, period furniture… It is the largest concentration, From Latin America, of similar houses. The Tereza Rachel Theater also visited the Shopping Mall, that after presenting historical shows, closed its doors and was rented to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, between 2001 e 2008. After, between 2008 e 2011, the space was used by directors and theatrical producers Charles Möeller and Cláudio Botelho as a place for rehearsals and cast selections of musicals produced by the duo in Rio de Janeiro. After having undergone a major renovation the site is now occupied by Theatro NET Rio.
