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Oscar Niemeyer

January 2023

  • Brasília’s Palácio da Alvorada

    Jair Bolsonaro wrecked Brazil’s presidential palace, TV report suggests

    Journalist touring residence with new first lady is shown torn sofas, broken windows and art damaged by the sun

February 2020

  • MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro. 1996. Architect: Oscar Niemeyer<br>C2PPR9 MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro. 1996. Architect: Oscar Niemeyer

    A vision in concrete: Oscar Niemeyer’s Brazil

    As Brasília turns 60, it’s time to reassess the legendary modernist architect on a visit to the Brazilian capital and Rio de Janeiro

January 2019

  • Niemeyer’s experimental domed theatre

    Too little, too late? The battle to save Tripoli's futuristic fairground

    Designed by Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer, Lebanon’s international expo site has been abandoned since civil war broke out in the 1970s

November 2017

  • Edifício Copan, São Paulo’s most iconic building.

    Guardian São Paulo week
    Copan strategy: the wild plan to revamp the ‘coolest building in Latin America’

    Once a crime-ridden mess, Oscar Niemeyer’s colossal curving structure has flourished thanks to the efforts of its fabled administrator. But can he push through his last, greatest scheme – the replacement of 72 million tiles?

May 2016

  • Louis Vuitton models descend the catwalk at the Mac Niterói art gallery in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.

    Louis Vuitton cruise collection seeks fashion's next dimension in Brazil

    Against futuristic backdrop, Nicolas Ghesquière focuses on nostalgic Ipaneman glamour and country’s sporting heritage

June 2015

  • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid in 2000 and at Flambards theme park near Cornwall, 2015CompositePhotographSerpentine Gallery/Ben Mostyn

    Beach cafe, billionaire's retreat, wedding marquee: second lives of the Serpentine pavilions

    Everyone from Ai Weiwei to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens after they are packed away?

January 2015

  • ‘A circle half-capturing a beach’: Sérgio Bernardes’s Hotel Tropical Tambaú in João Pessoa, Brazil. The tide washes through the building’s grilles, amplifying the sound of the waves.

    Sérgio Bernardes: the beautiful and the damned

    Sérgio Bernardes was a star of 60s Brazil, a brilliant architect. And then almost forgotten. His grandson has made a film to discover what happened, writes Rowan Moore

November 2014

  • Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani'

    The Bolivian architect whose “New Andean” style is transforming El Alto

    Like Gaudí in Barcelona or Niemeyer in Brasília, Freddy Mamani has the chance to shape the aesthetics of an entire city

June 2014

  • Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil

    Bend it like Niemeyer: 10 of the best buildings in Brazil

    Prolific Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was the king of the curve – his sinuous and stunning buildings helped give the country a modern visual voice from the 1940s onwards

March 2013

  • interior image of a CIEP school

    Architecture and design blog
    Flatpack or flexible? Oscar Niemeyer's schools could have lessons for the UK

    Oliver Wainwright: Rio de Janeiro's programme in the 80s to build more than 500 integrated education centres from a standardised system could show the way for embedding great design as standard

February 2013

  • Architect Edgar Gonzalez at Paris Communist Party building

    Architects and their favourite buildings – in pictures

    From Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel, Ed Tyler has spent three years taking photographs of architects in the buildings that inspire them

9 December 2012

  • (FILE) Celebrated Architect Oscar Niemeyer Dies At 104

    Oscar Niemeyer: an appreciation

    Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who did so much to shape his nation's capital, died last week, aged 104. Rowan Moore salutes a true visionary

7 December 2012

  • A view of the Contemporary Art Museum designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Niteroi city near Rio

    Architecture and design blog
    Oscar Niemeyer: architects and critics pay tribute

  • John Lennon by Jonas Mekas

    Art Weekly newsletter
    The Jonas Mekas effect and Mariko Mori's seasonal show – the week in art

6 December 2012

  • Oscar Niemeyer with sketches

    Architecture and design blog
    Oscar Niemeyer: the man behind the monuments

  • Oscar Niemeyer

    Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104

  • Oscar Niemeyer

    Oscar Niemeyer: a life in architecture - in pictures

  • Oscar Niemeyer

    Oscar Niemeyer obituary

November 2012

  • Oscar Niemeyer's Converse trainers are decorated with a handwritten poem about curves

    Architecture and design blog
    Oscar Niemeyer's Converse trainers contain a hidden message

    The 104-year-old Brazilian architect uses his trainer collection to make a political statement. But is this the right context?

December 2011

  • Centro Niemeyer

    Centro Niemeyer closes but row over arts complex continues

    Architect's name to be removed from centre in Avilés, northern Spain, as a result of legal action from the outgoing board
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