CEU Pimentas / Biselli + Katchborian architects

Architects: Biselli + Katchborian architects
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Project area: 16,000 sqm
Project year: 2008 – 2010
Photographs: Nelson Kon
Victor Civita Plaza – Open Museum of Sustainability / Levisky Arquitectos Associados & Anna Dietzsch, Davis Brody Bond

The design of the Victor Civita Plaza – Open Museum of Sustainability was based on the ever growing issue of contaminated urban lands. Situated on an existing brown field site in São Paulo, Brazil the design needed to accomodate a large and varied program. More photographs and drawings following the break.
Architects: Levisky Arquitectos Associados
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Project Architects: Adriana Levisky, Anna Julia Dietzsch (Managing Director of Davis Brody Bond’s Sao Paulo office)
Project Coordinator: Renata Gomes
Project Designers: Casey Mahon, Tatiana Antonelli, Lilian Braga, Luciana Magalhaes, Renata Helena de Paula, Catia Portuguese
Project Team: Fernando Lima, Marcelo Ignatios, Gabriela Kuntz
MEP Engineering: Grau Engenharia
Structral Engineering: Companhia de Projectos
Lighting: Franco & Fortes
Landscape Architecture: Benedito Abbud Paisagismo
Management: CeeMeeSee Engenharia
Foundation Engineering: Zaclis & Falconi Engenheiros Associados
Geotechnical Engineering: Alphageos Tecnologia Aplicada
Reuse of Water: Eduardo Oliveira
Acoustics: Fernando Iazzetta
Wood and Forest Resources: IPT
Photographs: Nelson Kon
House In Sao Paulo / GrupoSP

Architects: GrupoSP /Alvaro Puntoni, João Sodré, Jonathan Davies
Structure Design: Eduardo Duprat
Installationa Engineer: Ramoska + Castellani
Construction: Roberto Growald
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Project area: 360 sqm
Project year: 2005 – 2008
Photographs: Nelson Kon
Youturn Pavilion / UNStudio

UNStudio shared their new pavilion for the 29th Art Biennale in Sao Paulo, Brazil with us. The project is intended to encourage interaction between the participants and visitors by creating a place for display, discussion, and debate. An artistic expression that also functions programmatically, the pavilion embodies the dynamic geometry and spatial qualities common in the firm’s work (to compare, be sure to check out UNStudio’s New Amsterdam Pavilon or the Burnham Pavilion previously featured on AD).
More about the pavilion, including photographs by Ding Musa after the break.
Juranda House / Apiacás Arquitetos

Architects: Apiacás Arquitetos
Location: Vila Beatriz, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Project Architects: Anderson Freitas, Juliana de Araujo Antunes
Collaborators: Acácia Furuya, Bibiana Ferreira, Pedro Mauger
Structural Engineering: Eng. Maria de Lourdes Mesquita
Project Area: 150 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Pregnolato & Kusuki Estúdio Fotográfico
Mirante do Horto House / Flavio Castro

Architect: Flavio Castro
Location: Mirante do Horto Condominium, Horto Florestal, São Paulo, Brazil
Construction: Flavio Castro, José Claudio Magalhaes
Project Year: 2009
Construction Date: 2010
Land area: 226 sqm
Built area: 300 sqm
Photos: Nelson Kon
Sumaré House / Isay Weinfeld

Isay Weinfeld Arquitecto designed the Sumaré house, in São Paulo, for a graphic designer who desired a “spacious house, where she could work, exercise, entertain friends and, of course, live in.”
More images and more about the house after the break.
Marrom House / Isay Weinfeld

Architect: Isay Weinfeld
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Built area: 635sqm
Year: 2004
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti
Havaianas Store / Isay Weinfeld

Architect: Isay Weinfeld
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Area: 300sqm
Year: 2009
Photos: Nelson Kon

























