The mesmerising curves of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Pampulha are a Niemeyer hallmark. Its completion in 1943 was accompanied by an interior mural by Candido Portinari, while the site ...

Speaking of Portinari's work, it is worth mentioning the famous murals he designed for Oscar Niemeyer's São Francisco de Assis Church, also known as Pampulha Chapel. Different from the Ministry ...

Nestled in the bucolic, vineyard-dappled wonderland surrounding Château La Coste sits what is claimed to be Oscar Niemeyer’s final building ... which are assembled to form a vast, 15m-wide mural.

Oscar Niemeyer, widely regarded as the foremost Latin American architect of the last century, brought a daring and dramatic approach to public-works design through his glass cathedrals ...

What attracts me it the free and sensual curve." This philosophy was brought to life in concrete by Oscar Niemeyer for more ...

Now Oscar Niemeyer -- architect, bon vivant, lifelong Communist, living legend -- is closing in on the century mark. Most of the Brazilian’s contemporaries and, more satisfyingly, his critics ...

FORM FOLLOWS FEMININE: Niemeyer's affinity for curves is apparent in the Casa de Baile dance hall, in Pampulha. (Photo by Styliane Philippou, from Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence ...

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday at age 104, was the last living link to an era that truly believed in architecture and its capacity to embody progress and new technology for ...

Oscar Niemeyer, pictured here in 2007, was one of the most innovative and daring architects of the past 60 years. Niemeyer co-designed Brazil's purpose-built capital Brasilia. It is the archetypal ...

Nevertheless, Oscar Niemeyer’s presence can be linked to the creative processes of architects as sharply diverse in ethos and aesthetics as Lord Foster, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid. Only once ...