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    The Niemeyer Building (Portuguese: Edifício Niemeyer) is a residential building located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer...
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  • List of buildings and structures by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. From the approximately 600 projects designed by Niemeyer, only the most notable...
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    figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's...
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    The Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Portuguese: Museu Oscar Niemeyer) is located in the city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, in Brazil. It was inaugurated...
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    The Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre (Spanish: Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer, is a cultural centre located in the city of Avilés...
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    architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz, with final projects developed by Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier. The term Turtle Bay is occasionally used as a metonym...
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    establishments. The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer's office in São Paulo; Niemeyer was personally responsible for the building's famous sinuous façade...
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    Headquarters of the French Communist Party (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    arrondissement of Paris. The lead architect was Oscar Niemeyer, who had previously designed many buildings for Brazil's new capital of Brasília. It was designed...
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    Pampulha Modern Ensemble Buildings Aureliano Chaves building Central Station Conjunto Governador Kubitschek Niemeyer Building Churches and religious sites...
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    Mondadori) is an office building located in Segrate on the outskirts of Milan, Italy. Designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, it was built between...
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    Church of Saint Francis of Assisi (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    Heritage Site, part of the Pampulha Modern Ensemble, a collection of Niemeyer buildings in Pampulha. The church was controversial from the beginning. The...
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    Lake in Belo Horizonte in a building that originally housed the Pampulha Casino. The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, commissioned by the then-mayor...
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    Palácio da Alvorada (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    Brasília, on a peninsula at the margins of Paranoá Lake. The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and built between 1957 and 1958 in the modernist style...
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    Cathedral of Brasília (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    Archdiocese of Brasília. It was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and engineered by Brazilian structural engineer Joaquim Cardozo, and was...
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    Itamaraty Palace (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    The building was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated on April 21, 1970. It is located to the east of the National Congress building along...
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    Palácio do Planalto (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    the official workplace of the president of Brazil. The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1958 and inaugurated on 21 April 1960. It has been the...
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    Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    MAC-Niterói was designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini, who had worked with Niemeyer on earlier projects. The structure...
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    JK Memorial (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    founder of Brasília, capital city of Brazil since 1960. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the memorial is located in the Monumental Axis in Brasília. It is the...
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    Montreal Building (Portuguese: Edifício Montreal) is an apartment building in São Paulo, Brazil. It was designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012)...
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    Museum of Modern Art in Caracas (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    natural light would only enter the building via a glass ceiling. It was designed between 1954 and 1955 by Oscar Niemeyer and never realized. Albizu, Azier...
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    Supreme Federal Court Palace (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    appealing court and constitutional court. It was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and the structural project was carried out by engineer Joaquim Cardozo...
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    Gustavo Capanema Palace (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    some of its proponents, such as Oscar Niemeyer, active in the Communist Party of Brazil. Yet the ministry building was commissioned by a government of the...
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    Jaburu Palace (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    the vice president of Brazil. The building was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1977. It is located...
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    architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) with Carlos Lemos (born 1925). The building was designed in 1951 and completed in 1955. The Califórnia Building combined...
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    Max Abramovitz, Oscar Niemeyer, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret). Façade from the United Nations Secretariat Building, New York, New York. 1950"...
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    Wagenknecht leave the party. Wagenknecht married businessman Ralph-Thomas Niemeyer in May 1997. On 12 November 2011, politician Oskar Lafontaine stated publicly...
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    Pampulha Modern Ensemble Buildings Aureliano Chaves building Central Station Conjunto Governador Kubitschek Niemeyer Building Churches and religious sites...
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    Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier. Even though the design process was a collaborative effort, Le Corbusier took all the credit, saying the buildings were...
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    Pampulha Art Museum (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    rest of the ensemble since 2016. It is one of the buildings designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer, with structural calculation by the engineer Joaquim...
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    University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (category Oscar Niemeyer buildings)
    Algiers, Algeria. The university was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and was inaugurated in 1974. Courses offered include Computing, Pure and...
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