An Experience of Ruin: Niemeyer's Tripoli Fairgrounds

A survey of the Brazilian architect’s extensive International Fairgrounds of Tripoli, whose construction was interrupted by the Lebanese civil war in 1975 and never completed. A photo-essay from Tripoli by Pelin Tan. (Domus)
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Photo by seier+seier
Niemeyer Center by Oscar Niemeyer

Photo by Iñigo Bujedo-Aguirre
Happy 103rd birthday Oscar!

Today is the 103rd birthday of the great brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. How do you celebrate such an important date? With the opening of the Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer, or Centro Niemeyer as it is known, in Avilés (Spain). Enjoy your birthday party Oscar!
VBS, an online broadcast network, has these two videos where they interview master architect Oscar Niemeyer. After 101 years, he is still strong in architecture, politics and women.