Natal, Brazil created a national competition for the design of an iconic Christmas Square.  The objective of the competition, which was organized with the support of the Brazilian Institute of Architects and Rio Grande do Norte Department, was to develop a specific area of the city as a tourism attraction feature.  zerOgroup, an international and multi-disciplinary firm, collaborated with Unique, a Brazilian architecture practice based in Manaus, to win the competition.

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Architects: Una arquitetos / Cristiane Muniz, Fábio Valentim, Fernanda Barbara e Fernando Viégas
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Collaborators: Ana Paula de Castro, Gabriela Gurgel, Jimmy Liendo, José Carlos Silveira Junior, Luis Eduardo Menezes, Maria Cristina Motta, Sílio de Almeida
Structure and Fundation: Stec Engenharia
Hydraulic Instalations: Nestor Caiuby
Electric Instalations: Pascoal d´Aprile
Industrial Kitchens: Nucleora
Lighting design: Ricardo Heder
Construction: Fina Engenharia
Estação Ciência´s Coordination: Francisco Medeiros (in memoriam) e Maria Alice Gonzales
Coesf´s Coordination : Valmir do Val
Photographs: Bebete Viégas

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Architects: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Partners in Charge: Thiago Bernardes and Paulo Jacobsen
Project leaders: Fabiana Porto e Marina Nogaró
Collaborators: Andrez Galvez e Gabriel Bocchile
Interior Design: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture (Eza Viegas e Veridiana Ruzzante)
Lighting Design: Iluz Studio de Iluminação
Structure: Leão e Associados Eng. Estruturas
Construction: Empresarial Paulista
Landscape: Gil Fialho Planejamento e Paisagismo Tropical
Project year: 2005-2007
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti

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One of our readers, Adriano Carnevale Domingues, sent us this 250 sqm house in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a very attractive  roof succession.

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Architects: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Partners in Charge: Thiago Bernardes and Paulo Jacobsen
Collaborators: Jaime Cunha Junior, Paula Tega, Henrique de Carvalho, Paulo Poch and Andrés Galvez
Interior Design: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture – Eza Viegas
Design year: 2007
Setting up: 2008
Landscape: Isabel Duprat Paisagismo
Vertical Garden: Gica Mesiara – Quadro Vivo
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti

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Architects: Paulo César Lourenço and Bruno Sarmento
Location: Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
Structural Engineering: Protec Engenharia
Construction: Suport Engenharia
Electrical & Sanitary Services: Primus Engenharia
Site Area: 600 sqm
Constructed Area: 3,300 sqm
Project year: 2005-2007
Photographs: Marcio Brigatto

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Architects: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Partners in Charge: Thiago Bernardes and Paulo Jacobsen
Collaborators: Fabiana Porto and Gabriel Bocchile
Interior Design: Marco Aurélio Viterbo
Design year: 2003
Setting up: 2007
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti

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Architect: Decio Tozzi
Location: Valinhos/São Paulo, Brazil
Project year: 2002
Construction area: 225 sqm
Photographs: Cristiano Mascaro

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Architects: Affonso Risi Architect
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Collaborators: William T.S.Miyagui, Frederico Sabella & Lucas Bittar
Constructed Area: 281 sqm
Photographs: Paulo Risi

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Architect: Humberto Hermeto
Location: Vila Castela, Nova Lima, MG, Brazil
Collaborator: André Gabrich
Structural Engineering: Carlos Alberto Fonseca
Electrical & Sanitary Services: Projelet Projetos de Sistemas Prediais Ltda
Contractor: PHM Engenharia
Project year: 2004/2005
Photographs: Eduardo Eckenfels

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Architects: BCMF Arquitetos / Bruno Campos (Architect in Charge), Marcelo Fontes and Silvio Todeschi
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Project Team: Cláudio Parreiras Reis, Luciana Maciel, Lisiane Melo, Leonardo Fávero, Cristiano Monte-Mór, Ana Kawakami, Fabiana Fortes e Antônio Valadares
Program: Shooting, Equestrian, Hockey, Archery and Modern Pentathlon venues
Project management and General Coordination: Engesolo Engenharia Ltda
Structure: Helio Chumbinho (Misa Engenharia)/ Lino Nunes de Castro (Globsteel)
Sports Consultant: Aqualar (Swimming Pool), Forbex (Grass Hockey) and Eduardo Castro Mello
Lighting: Godoy Associados
Contractor: Construções e Comércio Camargo Corrêa (CCCC)
Budget: 40.000.000 EURO (US $53.5 millions)
Project year: 2005-2007
Constructed Area: 92,900 sqm
Photographs: Bruno Carvalho, Kaká Ramalho, Bruno Campos, Marcelo Fontes, Silvio Todeschi

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Architects: Angelo Bucci, Alvaro Puntoni
Location: Carapicuíba, SP, Brazil
Collaborators: Ciro Miguel, Fernando Bizarri, Juliana Braga
Structure: Ibsen Pulleo Uvo, Ruy Bentes
Services: Mauro Rodrigues Pinto
Landscape: Klara Kaiser
Construction: Alexsandro Bremenkamp
Project year: 2003
Construction year: 2008
Site area: 450 sqm
Construction area: 415 sqm
Lighting: Reka
Steel panels: Perfilor
Scaffolding: Peri
Photographs: Nelson Kon

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Architect: Paulo Henrique Paranhos
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
Collaborators: Eder Alencar, Ana Carolina Vaz
Project year: 2005-2007
Constructed Area: 2,600 sqm
Structure: Yasser Vasconcelos
Installations: Promap
Photographs: Joana França, Tao Arquitetura and Telmo Ximenes

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Architects: Studio Paralelo
Location: São Francisco de Paula, RS – Brazil
Contractor: Sull Frame
Steel Frame: Formac Brasil
Steel Frame Engineering: Formac Chile
Concrete Engineering: Multiprojetos
Lighting: Eficientysul
Wood Stoves: Amesti Brasil
Site Area: 1610 sqm
Constructed Area: 82 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Construction Year: 2007
Photographs: Eduardo Aigner

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Architects: Studio Paralelo
Location: Bento Golçalves, RS – Brazil
Project team: Luciano Andrades, Rochelle Castro e Valéria Bertolini
Contractor: Icon Incorporadora
Structural Engineering: Pasquali e Associados
Lighting: Potencial Engenharia
Landscape: Samuel Seben
Site Area: 930 sqm
Constructed Area: 360 sqm
Project year: 2006
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Eduardo Aigner

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Architects: TAMABI - Tatiana Letier
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Project Year: 2008
Two basic principles guided our project for the construction of a new penthouse foor to house a single 234-square-meter apartment, located at the base of the Corcovado Mountain in Rio de Janeiro’s forested Jardim Botânico neighborhood.

The first was a demand for an open space with the least possible amount of internal subdivisions, with the intent to provide good cross ventilation and establish continuity between the interior areas and the surrounding landscape, particularly the Atlantic Rainforest located right in front of the four-story building. Our solution was to group together personal and service areas (bedroom, bathrooms, laundry room) in one block that runs along the east façade, thus creating an open space for the rest of the apartment that connects the front terrace all the way to the back terrace. The open space accommodates the kitchen, dining room, living room, entrance stairs, and study.

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DOMO Arquitetos Associados sent us this temporary art gallery built for an exhibition in Brasilia that took place between august and october of 2008.

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The “Oca” was developed as a temporary pavilion for the event “Resistance and Tradition”, which was part of the World Cultural Forum that took place in São Paulo in 2004. As a center of discussion about Brazil’s indigenous culture, it sheltered many ceremonies and meetings of representatives from the country’s various native communities.

Architect: Königsberger Vannucchi - Jorge Königsberger and Gianfranco Vannucchi
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Project Year: 2004
Client: SESC / World Cultural Forum
Photographs: Gal Oppido

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Architect: Königsberger Vannucchi - Jorge Königsberger and Gianfranco Vannucchi
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Collaborators: Sandra Dellarole, Huang Kuo Che, Liliane Caparelli, Carla Estrella, Luiz Boscardin and Luiz Paulo Eigenheer
Project Year: 2005-2006
Construction Year: 2007-2008
Site Area: 3,800 sqm
Constructed Area: 25,930 sqm
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti

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Architects: Triptyque - Greg Bousquet, Carolina Bueno, Guillaume Sibaud e Olivier Raffaelli
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Project chief: Tiago Guimarães
Project year: 2005- 2006
Construction year: 2007
Site area: 1,059 sqm
Constructed area: 1,000 sqm
Landscape: Peter Webb
Contractor: Bassani Arquitetos Construtores
Structure: Osmar Baptista Antunes
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti, Fran Parente

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