Brasilia...not sure what to think

We took 2 overnight buses to Brasilia so when we arrived we were pretty dazed.Regardless though we weren´t sure what to think. It´s a crazy place, built in the 50s by the revolutionary president Kubischenck who put Brazil on the map as a world power, before it fell again. All a bit Utopian and his statue as you will see below is almost communist. But despite being ugly it is an interesting city and the catherdral was one of the most beautiful buildings we have seen inside.

The whole thing is stained glass apart from the white supports so the light inside is incredible

There is no real centre and walking is impossible as everything is designed in super-quadra blocks all self contained and on wings out from the main road of the city. The whole layout is like an aeroplane.

This is the library, we thought it looked more like a Bang and Olufsen stereo!

This was an art gallery while we were there but is just a municipal building ( slash space station!)

The beautiful cathedral represents an upside down chalice.

This was the congress building ( hand not included but I thought it was clever) The sunrises through the H shape in the middle. The bowl represents openess to new ideas and the dome the closed state of congress

I am not good at taking these things seriously, Ed was getting vaguely irritated at me for doing cartwheels through the pictures of the important impressive buildings. I thought it made them more interesting.