Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer dies

6 December 2012 Last updated at 00:13 ET Help

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has died at the age of 104.

Niemeyer designed some of the 20th Century's most famous modernist buildings.

He rose to fame as the architect of the main futuristic buildings of the Brazilian capital, Brasilia.

Will Gompertz reports.

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