Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

What travelers say:

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Rio is also a classic masterpiece, with buildings located opposite the bay in the city of Nieteroi, like flying saucers on a hovering cliff overlooking the city of Rio. Nemeyer once said, “I am not obsessed with the blunt right angles or straight lines that are created by man, and what really attracts me is the smart, sexy curves that are in my country, in the mountains, in the rivers, in the waves of the sea, And the bodies of those lovely women.” So he created a lightness of the environment with curves in the design of the MAC Museum, surrounded by mountains and seas, with the intention of showing “from the ground” and “growing and spreading” forms, like a flower rising from the rock, and enjoying Guanabara Bay, Panoramic view of Bread Mountain. The whole building is supported by a cylinder of only29.5 feet in diameter, and the dome is 50 meters in diameter, which looks like a UFO floating at sea from a distance.