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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/suncircle630.jpgThe sun as seen from Neimeyer’s monument The Pantheon of the Fatherland and Freedom (Panteao da Patria e da Liberdade Tancredo Neves in Brasilia. Niemeyer, a patriarch of modern architecture who shaped the look of modern Brazil and whose inventive, curved designs left their mark on cities worldwide, died late on Wednesday, December 5th at age 104. He had been battling kidney and stomach ailments in a Rio de Janeiro hospital since early November. His death was the result of a lung infection developed this week, the hospital said, little more than a week before he would have turned 105. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/face630.gifNiemeyer speaking at his Rio office during an interview in February 2006. Photograph: Bruno Domingos/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/tinyblue630.jpgA man walks near Niemeyer’s National Congress building in the Ministries Esplanade in Brasilia. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/silhouette630.jpgA man walks near the National Congress building. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/bigtower630.jpgAn image is projected on the towers of the National Congress during Culture Week in Brasilia in November of this year. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/silverpipes630.jpgA view of Neimeyer’s Contemporary Art Museum in Niteroi, near Rio de Janeiro, taken last January. Photograph: Clarissa Cavalheiro/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/fishing630.gifA fisherman throws out his net in front of Niemeyer’s Contemporary Art Museum (MAC) in Niteroi city, near Rio de Janeiro, in this image from December 2007. Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/huge630.gifA view of Copan in Sao Paulo, Latin America's largest apartment building. Designed by Niemeyer, it has some 1,600 units, and here was photographed in December 2007. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/homeless630.jpgA homeless person sleeps outside Niemeyer’s National Museum in Brasilia in an image taken in April 2010. Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/cathedral630.jpgTourists take pictures in front of the Neymeyer-designed Metropolitan Cathedral in Brasilia, in this December 2007 image. Photgraph: Jamil Bittar/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/blokebw630.jpgA security official near Niemeyer’s Planalto Palace in Brasilia. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/swirl630.jpgAn image from 1955 shows a Neimeyer-designed church in the grounds of the presidential palace in Brasilia. The church is connected to the palace by an underground hallway. Photograph: Kurt Severin/Three Lions/Getty Images
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/withpele630.jpgBrazilian soccer legend Pele holds Niemeyer’s hand at a Rio de Janeiro news conference where they presented plans for the Pele Museum, designed by Niemeyer, to be built in the coastal city of Santos, in a file image from November 2010. Photograph: Marcos Michael/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/lookoutwindow630.jpgOscar Niemeyer looks out over Copacabana beach from his office in Rio de Janeiro in this image taken on June 16th, 2003. Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/12/shades630.gifNiemeyer at the opening of the Oscar Niemeyer foundation, a building designed by himself, at which there was a ceremony to celebrate his 103rd birthday in Niteroi in this December 15th, 2010, image. Photograph: Bruno Domingos/Reuters
