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 ...

The landmark 1960s home in Santa Monica was the legendary Brazilian modernist's only residential project in the U.S.

Orozimbo hired the architect Oscar Niemeyer. With him ... contains a large mural by Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, executed during its construction when the artist lived at the club for one year.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...