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Designed by the acclaimed Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the Cathedral of Brasília is an almost crown-like hyperboloid structure that appears pinned to the ground. The building’s appearance, with its striking shape and gorgeous stained glass ceiling, is just as intriguing as its history.

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The cathedral itself is a simple structure, with only one function in mind, yet, Niemeyer hopes to do more than function and efficiency, as he aims to achieve a type of architectural experience with form and curves.

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Some modernists demonise form as formalism, that function and space should take precedence, such as Adolf Loos. Oscar Niemeyer however believed that under the mass consumption and culture of the modernist age of the 1960s, form can become a rhetoric, voicing out meaning and key social values. The Cathedral of Brasilia is the representation of catholicism in the new capital of Brazil. The form of the cathedral, like two hands holding aims to reach to the sky, spiritually, calling to the catholics, allowing the form to become an antidote to the mass culture of the modernist era.

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In my opinion it is like a futuristic church, because several Catholics say that the shape of the cathedral is like hands raised towards the sky.