British architect Lord Norman Foster, who designed London's Gherkin tower and the dome on the Reichstag building in Berlin, described Niemeyer as an "inspiration" who "stood accepted wisdom on its head".

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In his redesign of the Reichstag, the seat of German government in Berlin, Foster has carried this out to an extraordinary degree.

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