Oscar Niemeyer was born into a financially comfortable family in Rio de Janeiro in 1907. As a young man he was something of a rogue - describing in his memoirs, The Curves of Time, his visits with ...

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed some of the 20th Century's most famous modernist buildings, dies, aged 104.

Rio de Janeiro’s Hotel Nacional reopens this week after more than 20 years of closure. The 33-storey cylindrical structure overlooks the beach in the neighbourhood of São Conrado.