Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who helped to shape the 20th century and mankind's vision of the future, died on Wednesday aged 104, according to Brazilian media.
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| National Congress, Brasilia |
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| Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Ariel Teplitsky, Toronto |
Niemeyer
died of respiratory failure in Botafogo hospital in Rio de Janeiro, the city
where he was born in 1907, studied architecture and that he helped to shape
with famous landmarks, such as the Sambadrome, notoriously modelled - like much
of his work. But his influence spread much further to
the design of the capital Brasília and many of its landmarks including the
cathedral and Congress building. Overseas, he designed the United Nations
secretariat in New York, the Communist party headquarters in Paris and
Serpentine gallery summer pavilion in Hyde Park, London.
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He won
the gold medal from the American Institute of Architecture in 1970, the
Pritzker architecture prize from Chicago's Hyatt Foundation in 1988 and the
gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1998.
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