Oscar Niemeyer Celebrates 104th Birthday, Vows to Keep Working

A very happy birthday to Oscar Niemeyer, who today turns 104. While the legendary architect has recently witnessed a serious misstep with his cultural center in Spain, which is set to close today, he’s had a red letter year, between the release of a new book and his appearance in the documentary Urbanized, to name just a few. Niemeyer tells the Times in South Africa that he still has no intentions of retiring and has recently been working on a 2,500 person theater on Rio’s Sugerloaf Mountain.