Enquanto isso, o The Guardian, na Inglaterra publica longa e respeitosa matéria sobre a genialidade e a história do gênio brasileiro Oscar Niemeyer de onde reproduzo as seguintes fotos:
Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who designed much of Brazil's futuristic capital,
Brasilia, and Rio's Sambadrome. Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP
The Contemporary Art Museum, one of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer's
most famous designs. Photograph: Marcelo Sayao/EPA
The Museum of the Republic in Brasilia, designed by Niemeyer. Photograph: Corbis
Oscar Niemeyer's 2003 Serpentine pavilion. [Na Inglaterra]
Photograph: Peter Cook/View Pictures/Rex
Por sua vez a Agência Reuters destaca:
Oscar Niemeyer, um patriarca imponente da arquitetura moderna que moldou o olhar do Brasil contemporâneo e cujos desenhos inventivo, curvos deixaram sua marca em cidades em todo o mundo, morreu na noite de quarta-feira. Ele tinha 104 anos.
E algumas das fotos da postagem:
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer looks at the Copacabana beach from his office after his interview with Reuters in Rio de Janeiro, in this June 16, 2003 file photo. Niemeyer, a towering patriarch of modern architecture who shaped the look of contemporary Brazil and whose inventive, curved designs left their mark on cities worldwide, died late on December 5, 2012. He was 104. Niemeyer 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.
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A view of the Contemporary Art Museum (MAC) designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer is seen in Niteroi, near Rio de Janeiro, in this January 7, 2012 file photo.
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A homeless person sleeps outside the National Museum, designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer, in Brasilia in this April 7, 2010 file photo.
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The Brazilian National Congress designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer is seen in Brasilia in this April 7, 2010 file photo.
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A view of Copan, Latin America's largest apartment building with some 1,600 units, which is built by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, is seen in Sao Paulo, in this December 12, 2007 file photo.
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Tourists take pictures in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia, in this December 12, 2007 file photo.
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A fisherman throws his net in front of the Contemporary Art Museum (MAC) designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in Niteroi city, near Rio de Janeiro, in this December 11, 2007 file photo.
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A security official stands near the Planalto Palace, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia December 5, 2012.
REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
A security official walks next to the National Congress building designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia December 5, 2012.
REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
A security walks next to the Planalto Palace designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia December 5, 2012.
REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
No sítio da BBC News, além das reverências ao grande arquiteto brasileiro, há uma postagem de fotos de algumas suas obras, dentre as quais destaco:
Neimeyer co-designed Brazil's purpose-built capital Brasilia. It is the archetypal planned town, built from scratch on the desert-like Central Plateau in the late 1950s.
The city was the brainchild of Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, who was the Brazilian president between 1956 and 1961.
The project was highly ambitious but was officially inaugurated just four years after work was started in 1956 and includes buildings such as the National Cathedral - a crown-shaped structure of glass suspended between concrete struts which sweep upwards and inwards and then reach out to the heavens.
Rejecting the cube shapes favoured by his modernist predecessors, Niemeyer built some of the world's most striking buildings - monumental, curving concrete and glass structures which almost defy description.
Concrete, curves, colour - the Museum of Modern Art in Niteroi, across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, typifies Niemeyer's style.
Visitors enter the saucer-shaped cliff top gallery - which Niemeyer has likened to a flower reflected in the pool at its base - via a snaking ramp.
In the course of his long career, he snapped up just about every important commission going in Brazil - to some resentment from his peers. He accepted that great buildings were often the reserve of the rich - but he hoped that he could provide joy and amazement for ordinary people.
Niemeyer was a life-long communist so when a military dictatorship came to power in Brazil in 1964, he was forced to move to France. However, his work took him all over the world. While in exile, he continued to pick up almost every major commission in Brazil, as well as exporting his signature curves to the world. This is Le Havre's "volcano" arts centre, designed in 1982.
Le Huffington Post, de Quebec, noticia a morte de Niemeyer, afirmando, entre outras colocações elogiosas:
Le brésilien Oscar Niemeyer, certainement le plus grand architecte de notre époque, qui a révolutionné sa discipline, est décédé mercredi à Rio de Janeiro, à l'âge de 104 ans.
Algumas fotos ali publicadas:
Siège du Parti Communiste français, place du Colonel Fabien à Paris. Le siège du PCF a été construit dans les années 80.
L'intérieur du siège du PC.
Le musée de Curitiba.
No The Independent, a notícia do falecimento de Niemeyer é ilustrada com a seguinte foto:
Niteroi Popular Theather, one of the late constructios of Brazilian Architect Oscar Niemeyer.
No sítio Archidialog buscamos a seguinte fotos de projeto de Niemeyer:
Great Tel Aviv Synagogue Israel
Do The Telegraph trago esta foto publicada hoje:
Sede da Procuradoria Geral da República by Oscar Niemeyer Photo: ALAMY
Do sítio Dezeen Magazine, apresento algumas das fotos publicadas em 2008, da inacabada obra da Feira Internacional de Tripoli, Líbano. A obra foi interrompida em 1975 devido à guerra civil ocorrida então no Líbano.
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us this recent set of images taken at the unfinished International Fair of Tripoli, Lebanon, by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
O South China Morning Post de hoje traz a matéria intitulada "Arquiteto Oscar Niemeyer, designer da capital brasileira e no Edifício das Nações Unidas, morre aos 104 anos".
Entre as fotos da matéria, apresenta esta:
The United Nations building in New York. Photo: AP
O sítio CTV News, canadense, noticia a morte de Niemeyer e ilustra a matéria com as seguintes fotos:
Brazil's star architect Oscar Niemeyer attends an event marking his 100th birthday, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Dec. 14, 2007. (AP / Ricardo Moraes)
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer designed Brazil's National Congressand, inaugurated in 1960, in Brasilia, Brazil, shown here on Aug 14, 2007. (AP / Eraldo Peres, File)
E assim eu poderia passar horas ilustrando o valor que todo o mundo dá ao nosso brasileiríssimo Oscar Niemeyer. Um Brasil que projeta, inclusive com a força das imagens geradas por esse arquiteto, uma imagem de futuro, de espaços, tempos e curvas onde, espero, não haverá mais espaços para mesquinharias e enganações midiáticas. Eu acredito num Brasil melhor e que tem potencial para ser melhor sempre. Acredito também que quem tenta destratar este país, em nome de interesses estranhos ao da pátria brasileira e ao próprio interesse das pessoas de boa vontade em todo o mundo, perderá rapidamente seu "brilho", pois nossos sentidos estão ficando saturados. Pessoas que tentam a qualquer custo, desrespeitando a dignidade de outras pessoas, atingir fama e sucesso são pessoas que "montam" na popularidade de outrem para aparecer. Não conseguem aparecer por seus próprios méritos. Pobres dessas pessoas. Vão se esvanecer rapidamente no leito da história. Sumirão por nada de útil e de valioso terem proporcionado à coletividade. Quanto aos desajustes e dores que elas suscitam, ah!, esses se voltarão contra ela, fruto de uma velha e conhecida lei: a Lei da Ação e Reação. Sempre haverá alguém para lhes proporcionar, de retorno, aquilo que agora lançam irresponsavelmente sobre os outros. Não será por mim, certamente. Mas um mau caráter sempre acaba encontrando outro. Outro que queira rivalizar com ele. Outro disposto a assumir essa "briga" no mesmo patamar da baixaria.
Viva Oscar Niemeyer, que tanto de bom nos proporcionou aos sentidos e também às mentes.
Quem dera muitos mais brasileiros fossem tão "meio gênios" e "meio idiotas" quanto ele.
Aliás, ser considerado idiota por certas pessoas acaba por ser elogioso. Eu ficaria preocupado se essas mesmas pessoas tecessem loas ao Oscar. Se me elogiarem de alguma maneira, vou procurar saber ou entender aonde estou errando.
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