Brasilia Makes Oscar Niemeyer Feel Gloomy Again

Oscar Niemeyer is sad again. And when our favorite grouchy starchitect (“Turning 102 is crap!“) is sad, it makes us sad. Following his battle and subsequent defeat to finish his massive city planning effort in Brasilia, Brazil last year, the city has begun it’s 50th anniversary, leaving Niemeyer to once again envision what could have been. He blames too rapid growth fueled by years of greedy capitalists as the culprit for not maintaining a growing city that he’d planned for under a million people but now exceeds that number several times over.