Catedral Metropolitana de Brasília

Catedral Metropolitana de Brasília

Also known as Cathedral of Brasília

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Photo: Agência Brasília from Brasília, Brasil · CC BY 2.0

Year

1970

Architect

Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Niemeyer

Type

building

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The Catedral Metropolitana de Brasília reduces structure and symbol to nearly the same thing: 16 reinforced-concrete hyperbolic paraboloids spring from a circular base and meet 40 meters above it in a glass-infilled crown. Oscar Niemeyer de …

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