desirePlate 765 · Niterói, Brazil

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

A flying saucer on a cliff, because a museum asked to hover over a bay.

1996 · Oscar Niemeyer · South America

The chamber score

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Heitor Villa-Lobos · 1938–45

An aria over the bay.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Niemeyer's MAC, among the most photographed museums in South America.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Niterói Contemporary Art Museum through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Niterói Contemporary Art Museum was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.