Brasilia Cathedral seen by Sébastien Lapaque | EUROtoday
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“Chet Brasilia on its big plateau is a bit just like the Acropolis on its rock… Hello, intrepid capital, which reminds the world that monuments are on the service of the spirit! » Invited to talk in Brasilia on August 25, 1959, André Malraux, French Minister of Cultural Affairs, combined the epic and the tragic, the aesthetic evaluation and the lyrical improvisation, the historic imaginative and prescient and the eccentric.
As all the time. However, he had a transparent look. Very clear. Fantastic and visionary, he not solely admired the Planalto Palace constructed close to the buildings of the National Congress and the Federal Supreme Court, on the Three Powers Square, but additionally applauded a cathedral with curved traces rising in direction of the sky .
Four buildings with a lyrical vibration…
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