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Brazil: Niemeyer has new plans for capital
AP Worldstream; 5/29/2009; 427 words; ...designed a half century ago. Niemayer says he's come up with a new plan for a Plaza of Sovereignty...UNESCO world heritage site. Niemeyer tells the Correio Braziliense newspaper in Friday editions that he's now proposing a 165-foot (50-meter) obelisk...

Brazil Niemeyer
AP Images; 5/29/2009; 239 words; ...image released by Oscar Niemeyer's office, shows a model of the...2009. Niemeyer, 101, tells the Correio Braziliense newspaper in Friday editions that he's now proposing a 165-foot, 50...AP Photo/Oscar Niemeyer's office)

Architect, 101, denied chanceto add final flourish to city he created
The Independent - London; 2/10/2009; 786 words; ...years during his country's military dictatorship and...Brasilia. "In Niemeyer's case, he is interfering...coming from the governor's office that there was no...And in a letter to the Correio Braziliense newspaper, Niemeyer said...

Niemeyer gives up on changing Brasilia
AP Worldstream; 2/4/2009; 442 words; ...letter published Wednesday in the Correio Braziliense newspaper that he won't fight to...The 101-year-old architect's proposal had prompted many to try...from its own creator. Niemeyer's plaza would have included a low...

Brazilians tell architect Niemeyer to let it be
AP Worldstream; 1/30/2009; 908 words; ...monument to the nation's future, full of sensuous...commissioned Niemeyer's new plaza in time for its...public in the newspaper Correio Braziliense, Niemeyer said he was startled...Niemeyer designed the U.N.'s headquarters in New York...