The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Fans of art and architecture who find themselves in the Brazilian city of Curitiba should be sure to set aside a few hours to visit the Oscar Niemeyer Museum. One of the most bizarrely beautiful buildings in the world, it...
dezeen (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us this recent set of images taken at the unfinished International Fair of Tripoli, Lebanon, by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
New World Notes (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
I've been sporadically following the copious SL data/visualization prototype work showcased at Archidemo, the blog of Hidenori Watanave, a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. I think this latest project, 3D image database of Oscar Niemeyer on Second Life, is the...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Hidenori Watanave (Associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) and students are developing 3D image database of "Oscar Niemeyer" on Second Life . This is an official art project of "The 100th anniversary of exchanging between Japan and Brazil".
The Metaverse Journal (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Oscar Niemeyer’s work has gained many plaudits over the years and his architecture is now gaining some attention in Second Life, thanks to Hidenori Watanave and a student team from Tokyo Metropolitan University (Kanako Hayashi, Kaname Shimizu, Makiko Suzuki, Ryuta Kawahara and Yohei Nakano). A 3D image database of Brazilian Niemeyer’s work is being developed [...] ShareThis
www.craigatkinson.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The Golden Record. Collective Gallery Edinburgh. August. Title to be confirmed. Novas Liverpool. September. The Joyful Bewilderment. Truman Brewery London. September. Katalogue, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Brasil. September. Solo show, title to be confirmed. BADept Blackpool. Autumn. Inclusion in ‘The Big Book Of Contemporary Illustration’, Anova Books, Martin Dawber. Inclusion in ‘Tight Fit’ zine.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
"Today, the city is quite correctly regarded as a colossally wrong turn in urban planning--but Brasília, paradoxically, contains some of the most graceful modernist government buildings ever produced. All were designed by Oscar Niemeyer (now 100 years old and still working), who helped select Costa's master plan and who was the creative influence behind the building and shape of the city."...
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Ravello, the “crown jewel of the Amalfi Coast,” is not only unrivalled in its historic attractions (i.e. its recently restored Duomo and cloistered gardens), it houses a large number of modern architectural masterpieces. With a new Oscar Niemeyer auditorium nearing completion and Gore Vidal’s former home soon to debut as the Villa Rondinaia hotel, there are countless new reasons to visit the lesser-known...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
GURKHA'S LAMENT 100 YEARS OF OSCAR NIEMEYER
nandigramunited (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
GRANMA: International Support Floods in to Bolivian Government Posted by: "Walter Lippmann" walterlx@earthlink.net walterx Date: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:08 pm ((PDT)) GRANMA April 23, 2008 International Support Floods in to Bolivian Government An initiative of the In Defense of Humanity Network PEDRO DE LA HOZ pedro.hg@granma.cip.cu Renowned figures from around the world are making a call denouncing a conspiracy...
Bolivia Rising (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
The process of changes in favor of the Bolivian majority is at risk of being brutally restrained. The rise to power of an Indigenous president with unprecedented support in that country and his programs of popular benefits and recovery of the natural resources have had to face the conspiracies of the oligarchy and United States interference from the very beginning. In recent days the increase in conspiracy...
Tropolism (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Oobject gives us this gem: "Five or so architects have produced much of the most famous modern furniture." They present 15 architect-designed chairs and ask us to vote on them. Of course, there are some glaring omissions, but to me the most interesting is the wacky lounge chairs by Oscar Niemeyer , found over at Wright20 .
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Sleeper (1973) A clarinet player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought back in the future by antigovernment radicals in order to assist them in their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world that has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots. Director Woody Allen WritersWriter Woody Allen...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
In a city where, architecturally, you are competing with signature buildings from the likes of Oscar Niemeyer, it is no mean feat to construct a new hotel that instantly grabs the attention. The Unique does just that. It looks like a giant slice of concrete watermelon and is an instant draw with its gravity-defying, upturned moon-shape structure, with minimal wall supports at either end.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Terry Gilliam must have been inspired to name his 1985 movie Brazil after seeing this utopian view of the future from 1960.Fifty years of progress in five moving the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a plateau in the undeveloped interior. President Juscelino Kubitschek Architect Oscar Niemeyer urban planner Lucio Costa and landscape architect Burle Marx undertook this momentous feat desig
