Oscar Niemeyer received a museum for his 103rd birthday

Rio de Janeiro - The famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer yesterday, on the day of his 103rd birthday, officially opened a museum in the Brazilian city of Niteroi near Rio de Janeiro, which chronicles his seventy-year career, wrote the AP agency.
"My friends came, everything is very pleasant. It is an acknowledgment of my work," Niemeyer stated according to the bielertagblatt.ch website, who attended the event in a wheelchair.
The museum building was designed by the honoree himself. The construction has a spiraling shape and is set on a water surface of 1500 square meters. The exhibition includes sculptures, models, and projects recalling Niemeyer's work, which has become legendary in the field of architecture.
Niemeyer has over 600 modernist projects to his credit around the world.
Among them are the famous sambadrome in Rio and the UN building in New York. His buildings are characterized by graceful curves, which the author himself regarded as a "tribute to the body of the Brazilian woman."
Niemeyer, despite his old age, still works. Throughout his life, he has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Pritzker Prize in 1988, which is often referred to as "the Nobel Prize of Architecture." It was established in 1979 by American entrepreneur Jay Pritzker and his wife Cindy.