Supporters of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro have damaged the iconic Oscar Niemeyer-designed National Congress, Planalto Palace and Supreme Court buildings after storming the capital of ...

Brazil’s National Congress, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, was inaugurated in 1960 in the capital of Brasilia. (Eraldo Peres / Associated Press) ...

1 A man walks near the National Congress building, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, in the Ministries Esplanade in Brasilia, December 6, 2012. 2 A view of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum ...

Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian ... Throughout the late 1950s into the early 1960s, he designed and constructed the National Congress of Brazil, the Palácio da Alvorada (the president's home), ...

The long ramps outside the National Congress building, for instance, were meant to “extend the visual display of a building’s beauty,” he added. For Niemeyer, accessibility was fundamental ...

In North America and Europe, the Brazilian capital is much less familiar – unless of course you are at all interested in architecture, as Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer's Brasília is one of the ...

Among the buildings are the National Congress, the Palácio do Planalto (the official office of the President), and the Supreme Court. All the structures were completed in the 1950s and 1960s as ...

Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012), who died just a few days before his 105th birthday, had been one of the last living links to the first years of modernist architecture, a social idealist and unabashed ...

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Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012), who died just a few days before his 105th birthday, had been one of the last living links to the first years of modernist architecture, a social idealist and unabashed ...

They damaged modernist Oscar Niemeyer-designed buildings by smashing windows, ... the rioters stormed into the national Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace and smashed windows, ...

The bemusement of the rioters who made their way into Brasília's National Congress this month pointed to an increasing disaffection with architectural symbols of power, writes Will Wiles.