Gentle building: how architecture can improve our cities

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What is it like to walk past the buildings and houses on the street where you live? Or the street where you work, study, shop, or take your children to school? What relationship do these buildings and houses have with the sidewalk? How do they treat pedestrians? Do they make you want to walk past them? Do they welcome or repel? 

Are they kind... or hostile buildings?

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Cite: Tenorio, Gabriela. "Gentle building: how architecture can improve our cities" [Edifício gentil: como a arquitetura pode melhorar a nossa cidade] 07 Jul 2026. ArchDaily. (Trans. Baratto, Romullo) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1131899/gentle-building-how-architecture-can-improve-our-cities> ISSN 0719-8884
Conjunto Nacional on Avenida Paulista, São Paulo. Photo © Daniel Ducci

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