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Building: Museum of Contemporary Art
Location: Niteroi, Brazil
Completion: 1996
Architect: Oscar Niemeyer
Structural Engineer: Bruno Contarini

AE Interests: This saucer-shaped modernist structure, comprised of structural concrete, is situated on a cliff overlooking the beach. Compared to a flying saucer, it is cantilevered from a 9m thick central core with three circular floor plates.