2013年8月21日 · The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, also know as the MAC, was designed by the famed Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1996. This iconic...

The MAC-Niterói was designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini, who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects. The structure is 16 meters high; its cupola has a diameter of 50 meters with three floors. The museum has a collection of 1,217 works from the art collector João Sattamini.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), opened on September 2, 1996, is the current symbol of the city of Niterói. The futuristic shape created by Niemeyer became a landmark of modern architecture, deemed as one of the Seven Wonders of the World in terms of museums by specialized media.

Símbolo da cidade, patrimônio nacional e considerado uma das maravilhas arquitetônicas do mundo, o Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói (MAC) foi projetado pelo arquiteto Oscar Niemeyer e é um dos cartões-postais da cidade.

The MAC-Niterói project reveals the daring of an experienced artist, responsible for a production that presents a very personal reading of the precepts of rationalist architecture lecorbusiana matrix. In the 80s, the democratic regime was recovered in Brazil and Oscar Niemeyer returned. He found a different country than it was when he was ...

2025年1月8日 · The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (MAC Niterói) is one of Oscar Niemeyer’s most notable works. Completed in 1996, the museum merges modernist principles with a sculptural sensibility. Located on a cliff overlooking Guanabara Bay, the building interacts with the surrounding landscape, framing views of Sugarloaf Mountain and the Rio de ...

O Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC), inaugurado em 2 de setembro de 1996, é o atual símbolo da cidade de Niterói. A forma futurista criada por Niemeyer tornou-se um marco da arquitetura moderna mundial, sendo considerada uma das sete maravilhas do Mundo em museus pela mídia especializada.

2016年8月3日 · The structural design was in charge of Bruno Contarini engineer who worked with Oscar Niemeyer in many other works, including the revolutionary structure of the University of Constantine, Algeria. The structure of the MAC is complex due to the type of work, loose in the air, with a single central support and circular shape.

2020年6月13日 · In the film Oscar Niemeyer, an architect engaged in the century (Marc-Henri Wajnberg, 2000), Niemeyer is shown flying in a UFO over Rio de Janeiro and then landed in the & rsquo; site location, suggesting that this is the true origin of the museum.

MUSEU DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA – MAC. ANO: 1996. LOCAL: MIRANTE DA BOA VIAGEM, NITERÓI. PAÍS: BRASIL – BR. DESCRIÇÃO: Um único cilindro surge numa ponta da Baía da Guanabara. Dele desabrocha em flor o edifício branco, circular, embelezando a natureza verde. Um espelho d’água dá continuidade visual ao mar.