I don’t really think it’s ugly. Actually I look at the building itself in my way to college and I just can’t tell what I think or even what I feel. All I know is that I can’t pass by without stare for a while.

Yes, the building is ugly. Yes, it’s a big waste of space in one of the sweetest spots in the city. Yes, it could be better looking.

But it could also be worst, it could be just another glass box in the city.

I think the guys who designed it are bold enough to rely in old techniques and materials and come up with something unusual.

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.

Most architects accept this fact and produce worthless commercial architecture. And by that I mean fake, bad-executed neo-classic trash produced for newly enriched, cultureless people that believe that living in a residential building that looks like a French chateau will make them look nobler.

Some architects do indeed have the opportunity to produce good architecture, but they are usually the ones that have the luck of having a minimal rich and cultured clientele that asks for the pretty houses we see in magazines. Some others have contacts in the government and take the opportunity to design the few good schools, museums and the like.

There is, however, some few architects that try to fight the status quo and produce good architecture for the unnerving real estate market. After all, what we see in the streets and public spaces is the architecture the real estate market builds, as the pretty houses are all isolated in rich and gilded neighborhoods. That’s what give quality to the experience of strolling around the city and then be surprised by something like these Top Towers.

One may find it ugly or beauty, but what it’s certain is that there is something of new and unexpected in it. It’s, of course, cheap architecture for commercial purposes, but it surely is also the result of confronting what the real estate market imposes to us in Brazil. In that way, I do believe these towers shed some light of hope to the future of Brazilian cities, if not particularly to the state-of-the-art architecture some privileged people from developed countries are used to see, work and live in.