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Architecture Revived (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer designed this hochhaus in the Hansaviertel area of Berlin, completed in 1957. The 72 meter building contains 78 living units. The entire structure is lifted off the ground floor in LeCorbusier fashion to open up the outside public area. Elevators are separated 7 meters from the building to clearly delineate the circulation route. German apartment buildings take care...
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Tomorrow Museum (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
101 year old Oscar Niemeyer has returned to work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumour. What is your excuse?
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
BRASILIA (AP).- Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor. The daily newspaper O Globo reports that Niemeyer is working on a collection of buildings in the city of Niteroi, outside of Rio de Janeiro. Niemeyer designed much of the futuristic Brazilian capital of Brasilia and Rio's Sambadrome, home...
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City Parks Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The capital of Brazil, Brasilia is a planned city with parks and open spaces designed at the height of automotive thinking in the late 1950s. The city was laid out by Lucio Costa and the buildings by famed and still-living centenarian architect Oscar Niemeyer. Many of the buildings are iconic and beautiful in their modern form, [...]
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Sympathy for the Moon (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I arrive in Curitiba as dusk settles. There's a storm and the landing is very bumpy. I take a taxi at rip-off price to the eco-hostel I found that morning on the internet. The rain absolutely charges down, and lightening flashes intermittently. I'm glad I took the taxi as it's dark now and the hostel is way out in suburbia. On the way there we pass mile after mile of high riss, shops, advertisement...
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Eclectica (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I wouldn't have thought of Brazil as a major source of modernist architecture; however Julian Weyer's Tour of Mid Century Modern Brazil proves otherwise. Lots of great images including designs by Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx .
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.
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Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This week we're going to talk about Renzo Piano and his main works that marked the history of architecture. Technology, in its unique and unusual ways, is still characteristic of his work that leaves people perplexed in all corners of the world. <!--break--> Renzo Piano was born in Genova, Italy, on September 14th 1937. In a family full of builders, we are fortunate to have contradicted the...
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Transbuddha.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The folks at Abduzeedo have a put together a nice look at the work created and inspired by Oscar Niemeyer. Take a look.
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Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Every week we're going to post about architects that make or have made history influencing many. Nothing better to start us off than with a great Brazilian architect who has been referred to worldwide for having turned architecture into a popular subject in his country, and even today at almost 102 years of age, still continues to gift us with his work. <!--break--> Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida...
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3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The problem with the idea of the Brasilia of the North is that Newcastle never found a northern Oscar Niemeyer. This was not for want of trying. Smith invited Le Corbusier to design what would have been his only British building, although it never worked out. He did manage to convince the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen (designer of that other 1960s icon, those curved chair which Christine Keeler famously...
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