Oscar Niemeyer remarried at the age of 98

Rio de Janeiro - One of the greatest living architects, Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer, has remarried at the age of 98. His bride was his sixty-year-old secretary Vera Lucía Gabreiro, wrote the Brazilian newspaper O Globo today.
    Niemeyer, who will turn 99 in a month, issued a short announcement according to the newspaper that he married on Thursday in his apartment in Rio de Janeiro. This is his second marriage. He became a widower in 2004. Gabreiro began working for him 14 years ago.
    Oscar Niemeyer, a member of the generation of architects developing the ideas of Le Corbusier's revision of functionalism in an expressive style, designed most of the buildings - among others, the presidential palace, parliament, and cathedral - for the new capital Brasilia 40 years ago. In Europe, his works include projects such as the headquarters of the French Communist Party in Paris.