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Article: Niemeyer gives up on changing Brasilia
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- February 4, 2009
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Renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer has backed away from his proposal to change the Brazilian capital he designed 50 years ago.
Niemeyer says in a letter published Wednesday in the Correio Braziliense newspaper that he won't fight to build his envisioned "Plaza of Sovereignty" in Brasilia because the government has made clear it won't fund the ...