dois lados - twee kanten

Dois lados do mesmo estacionamento.

Twee kanten van hetzelfde parkeerterrein. Aan één kant sociale woningbouw en aan de andere kant één van São Paulo´s duurste gebieden met de World Trade Center en het Hilton Hotel.

A Favela e a Ponte

O UOL produziu este video contando a história da remoção de uma favela em uma das áreas que mais tiveram valorização imobiliária nas últimas décadas.

parque Ibirapuera

8.00 am

museu afro-brasil

http://www.museuafrobrasil.org.br/

largest wooden Cathedral of Latin America

The Saints Peters and Pauls Cathedral in the city of Paramaribo in Suriname is named to be the biggest wooden construction of Latin America. After a big restauration it opened his doors again after 22 years.

Build at the end of the 19th century its interior is made of unpainted cedar wood.

http://nos.nl/video/197882-restauratie-kathedraal-paramaribo-bijna-af.html

fietsenstalling

This bycicle storage in front of the Central Station of Amsterdam is a very nice solution to store a lot of bycicles using little space. Designed by VMX architects it was built in 2001 as a temporary storage with his feet in the water. The skateboarders do like it as well, great urban feature.

Gregori Warchavchik

Casa Modernista da Rua Santa Cruz, São Paulo, built in 1927/1928 and designed by Gregori Warchavchik was the first building of the modern movement in Brazil. Gregori Warchavchik, an Ucrainian architect, arrived in Brazil in the year 1923 and later naturalized himself Brazilian.

His wife, Mina Klabin, designed the garden landscape, another sign of Brazilian modernity.

SP METRO First Project

In 1954, the first project for the METRO system of São Paulo was presented. Originally with 100.789 meters, the project was based on the systems of London, New York, Madrid and Paris. The first idea was to have only 23% of the network with underground lines.

chair exhibition

Tomorrow, 5th of october, will open a permanent chair exhibition at the faculty of architecture of the University of Delft. Some 300 chairs who were saved from the fire that destroyed the old faculty can now be seen by the public.

Great news!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-LFCiF1wTQ

Parking lots instead of lots of parks!

As we can see, regrettably, it is still quite affordable to park your car in the middle of the city in SP. Parking lots instead of lots of parks!!

Rebecca Horn

Great exhibition of artist Rebecca Horn in the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil

The prophecy

It looks like the prophecy was right, one day everybody will have to leave the cars and come back home walking. Cars will be abandon and become a contemporaneous ruins.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/08/24/VI2010082402152.html

Barceloneta

Our project for Barceloneta neighbourhood for an urban renewal keeping the same density and creating a new waterfront landscape, in 1997.

Eletric city

sky

sense of freedom in crazy dense São Paulo