Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently near San Francisco

 

Robocop This is really called the Robocop building.

Edificio Cadaver

Nearby on the Marginal Pinheiros is this abandoned construction. I´ve always been fascinated by these skeletal buildings. They´re like pure architecture, or some sort of grand sculpture. I´ll be photographing more of this building (and others here in São Paulo)

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Friday, May 13, 2005

 

Nothing special, I just thought this was a cool picture.

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

 

9 de Julho

9 de Julho is one of the avenues leading out from downtown along the bottom of a valley. Streets cross along viaducts and tall buildings front the avenue and the streets rising on either side. The neighborhood on the right is a good one but on the street itself it has become very seedy with a number of buildings being abandoned, covered in graffiti and filled with squatters. Visually I love it but I wouldn´t want to walk there at night or live in the building next door.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

 

Memorial da America Latina

You don´t have to go to Brasilia to experience Oscar Niemeyer´s wacky architecture. Right near the center of São Paulo is his Memorial da America Latina. It was opened in 1989, despite it´s rather 60´s Jetson´s look. Niemeyer has never really altered his style. The centerpiece of the memorial is a vast, shade-less, sunbaked, concrete plaza--perhaps not the best feature in a tropical city. The project strikes me as one of those self-congratulatory public projects that don´t do very much good. The quote at the bottom of the bleeding hand is from the then-governor of São Paulo state. The site is located next to one of the major transit points in São Paulo; Barra Funda, where the train, subway and multiple bus lines converge. A shopping mall would´ve been a better contribution to the urban fabric. Instead Paulistas have a vast, fenced-in, ceremonial dead-zone in the heart of the city. I suppose the models at least looked cool.

The Official website. Neimeyer´s website, showing a number of his later projects.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

 

SESC Pompeia

One of the most interesting buildings in São Paulo is the SESC Pompeia, designed by the architect Lina Bo Bardi in the early 1980s. SESC is this quasi-union organization and has these recreation & cultural centers scattered across São Paulo. They clearly have a lot of money because the buildings are immaculate and interesting.The center in the neighborhood of Pompei is a recycled factory, altho the two concrete stuctures with the walkways were built new for the center.

More info & pictures in Portuguese.

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Monday, May 09, 2005

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