true, that this building could do better. but at least it’s making a sort of statement to be different.
but that doesn’t mean i like the design

In chile, we can see a shift in arch thinking last years, introdution of new concepts and technologies, but here there are the same 70s mind built everywhere. Brazilian architecture needs – and deserves – new architecture, a “superbrazilian” architecture, just like the 90s were from the dutch.

ps1.: In my opinion, the architects did not wanted to ‘fight’ the system
ps2.: the most impressive ‘concept’ of this building is that some of the white boxes in the facade are just fake enclosures for the small and inneficient air conditioning machines.. what a shame

Do you think that big glasses are a good solution for the Brazilian weather?

but the real state condition in brazil cannot be an excuse for the architecture we have been producing the last decades, except in the cases when the contractors change the architect’s design without his agreement. that don’t seems to be the case, as the architects decided to publish the project.

i recognize the intention of the architects to propose something unusual for the brazilian real market, that surprisingly accepted the design. but the design itself don’t presents anything new if we think in global terms, in the other hand, it looks like poor dutch architecture. it’s heavy and bold in a saturated landscape. the colors are awful. the windows are small. so, what’s the poit of proposing something if this is low quality architecture? just because it’s different? just because it means a swift from french classical do pseudo dutch contemporary?

ps:
have someone noticed the football stadiums for the 2014 world cup? all projected by politicians friends, without any competition

Hi

moste of what you say is absolutely true.
but i still don`t get the point of this building.
So you basicly say … lets build a lot of trash buildings to show what the real estate market does to us?

As if S.P. has not enough ugly buildings already.