Government Alleges Financial Issues, Closes Spain's Centro Cultural Internacional Oscar Niemeyer

Considering how occasionally difficult some of his recent health-based rough patches had been over the past couple of years, legendary architect Oscar Niemeyer seemed to be having a pretty great 103rd year. In addition to a new book released this summer, profiling the dozens of churches he had designed during this still-going career, he rang in his birthday last December with the opening of two in now-a-series of dazzling modern buildings housing eponymous cultural organizations, first with the Oscar Niemeyer Foundation in his home city of Rio de Janeiro, followed closely by the opening of the Centro

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