A clay model of the Cathedral of Brasília, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Cathedral of Brasília in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

Brasília · Brazil

Cathedral of Brasília

40 metres · 131 feet

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Height
40 m131 ft
Completed
1970
By
Oscar Niemeyer
Coordinates
15° 47′ 54″ S47° 52′ 32″ W · -15.7983, -47.8756

Sixteen curved concrete ribs rising from a 60-metre circle, drawing in to a waist and opening again at the top like hands raised together, over a sunken nave.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Brasília, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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