Oscar Niemeyer is 102 years old, and still designing eye-popping public buildings in Brazil. Check out his most recent commission, Cidade Adminstrativa in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state. The photo is taken from a chopper (not by me), but the effect is more striking at ground level as you zoom along the nearby motorway.
His work might be described as alienating and cold, but you can't accuse him of being dull! The two large intersecting office towers house the 10,000+ state bureaucrats. The smaller building inside the kind of white armature is the governor's office! The building is actually suspended from the white framework. Remarkable ...
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