catedral e brasilia Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/catedral-e-brasilia Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:19:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Brasilia Cathedral http://travelsfinders.com/brasilia-cathedral.html http://travelsfinders.com/brasilia-cathedral.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:39:31 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=220947 COMPLETED 1970 CATHEDRAL BRASILIA, BRAZIL OSCAR NIEMEYER Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, was built from scratch in the center of the country in the late 1950s. The principal planner was Lucio Costa, and the lead architect was Oscar Niemeyer, who designed not only many government buildings but also the cathedral in the city center. Niemeyer became a master in the use of concrete to produce sweeping sculptural designs, and the cathedral is an outstanding example. The cathedral is based on 16 identical concrete columns. Each column weighs 90 tons and stretches, in a flowing hyperboloid curve, from the ground to

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