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Brazil mourns Niemeyer and his sweeping curves
Internationally renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer died at 104 in Rio de Janeiro. He shaped Brasilia with flowing concrete and curving forms and was praised by President Dilma Rousseff and U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki moon for his humanist modernism. Rio governor Sergio Cabral declared three days of mourning.
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Oscar Niemeyer
Brasilia
Niemeyer
Rio de Janeiro
Elisa Barboux
Hospital Samaritano
Rio
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Rousseff
Sergio Magalhaes
Brazilian Institute of Architects
Paris
United Nations
New York
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Niteroi
Guanabara Bay
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Ban Ki-moon
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France
le Corbusier
Brazil
Lucio Costa
Cabinet Ministries
National Museum
Robert Hughes
United Nations Complex