(7 Dec 2012)
1. Various of mourners paying respects at casket of late Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer
2. Close of casket
3. Mid of members of MST (Moviemientos sin Tierra, a group advocating for farmers and rural workers to have their own land) paying their respects
4. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Isis Campos, Mourner and member of MST:
"Niemeyer represents the spirit of solidarity, the communist spirit that is to deny all these values that capitalist society imposes on us."
5. Mid of mourner Solange Monte Nunes paying her respects
6. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Solange Monte Nunes, Mourner:
"A politically sensitive human being. He is a man of many talents. He is a man of words, of writing, of music, a man of culture."
7. Wide of Preroll Wilian de Matos, government worker arriving to pay respects
8. SOUNDIBITE: (Portuguese) Preroll Wilian de Matos, Government worker:
"Like many other great men, he's one of those from which I learned many things. I learned to study, I learned to plan and I learned to be the architect of my own life and just to go on. I learned many things from this man and I'll miss him."
9. Mid of mourners by Niemeyer's casket
10. Close of flower arrangement sent by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro
11. Close of flower arrangement sent by Cuban President Raul Castro
12. Wide of funeral wake
13. Various of flags at half mast at Presidential Palace

STORYLINE:
Mourners in Rio de Janeiro paid their respects to the late Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer on Friday.
Niemeyer died on Wednesday, just 10 days before his 105th birthday.
Ahead of his burial, mourners filed past his wooden casket, which was on display at the City Palace and covered by a Brazilian flag and three red roses.
Most of those paying their respects were simply thankful for his contribution: creating architecture that was quintessentially Brazilian and internationally acclaimed.
"Like many other great men, he's one of those from which I learned many things," said mourner Preroll Wilian de Matos.
"I learned to study, I learned to plan and I learned to be the architect of my own life and just to go on," he added. "I learned many things from this man and I'll miss him."
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Niemeyer's unmistakable designs gave the country's capital, Brasilia, a uniquely Brazilian aesthetic.
The architect used concrete as it were something malleable, creating great sensuous curves, or letting it flow like water to imbue static structures with a sense of movement.
He also designed much of the UN's New York complex and works in several other nations.
The extent of national and international regard for the man and his work was clear in the words of visitors - and in the cascade of flowers and crowns that flanked his casket.
There were flowers from both Fidel and Raul Castro.
In a nod to Niemeyer's communist militancy, Fidel Castro's crown was dedicated to "the unconditional friend of Cuba, Oscar Niemeyer".
Raul Castro's was sent to "dear friend Niemeyer".
A third crown came from Cuba's ambassador in Brazil.
Niemeyer downplayed the transformative power of what he did, saying: "Architecture doesn't change anything. It's always on the side of the rich. What's important is believing that life can be better."

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