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Comissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Vazio S/A designed Spiral Booths, a “space for fiction and performance” that will be built for the V&A 2010 Architecture Exhibition. Spiral Booths is a labyrinth; a stair with attached booths that can work either as a six-stage structure or six booths for retreat. Other six installations will compose the exhibition, all of them chosen out of 18 proposals presented by selected practices of cutting-edge architects.
The World Architects site, dedicated to the dissemination of portfolios of architects around the world, this month published a page of Vazio S/A with Aalborg Acqua Center, Topographical Amnesias II, and Vila del Rey house projects.
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This is to invite you to the launch of my book The Ultimate Skyscraper (or The Absolute Condo) today, 09/12, at “2009″ Restaurant (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) – an illustrated essay about the privatization of the world. Illustrations by Portuguese architect Vasco Mourão, graphic design by Nimbus; and research, text and original sketches by me. See you there!
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(Press release)
On December 2, 2009 at 6.30 p.m., architect Carlos Teixeira will launch his book O Condomínio Absoluto (The Ultimate Skyscraper), published by C/Arte, at Livraria da Vila – Vila Madalena on Rua Fradique Countinho 915, São Paulo. In parallel with his work in his own office – Vazio S/A, Carlos has already written two books and he has also exhibited his projects in Venice Biennial (2004) and in São Paulo Biennial.
They are two books joint together. The first one, illustrated by the Portuguese illustrator Vasco Mourão, and defined by its author as a fantastic epic, narrates the history of the São Paulo Tower project; supposed to be the eventual tallest building in the world. It was proposed in 1999 by the Beattles former guru, Yogi Maharishi, in partnership with a local businessman, Mario Garnero. The idea was not taken ahead due to the lack of funds.
According to Carlos, “São Paulo Tower would be 85 times taller than the tallest building in the world”. In the first book, Carlos describes how the building would be. It would end up swallowing the whole city and it would embrace its main buildings such as Copan, Hotel Unique, Mosteiro de São Bento, Oca, and Masp. Carlos finely ironically criticizes the Brazilian contemporary architecture, the tower project and the city itself.
The second book presents photos of the area of 70 blocks of buildings that would be knocked down if the tower was built. It also reproduces countless articles about the topic and presents what would have been the chronology of starting building it on May 12, 1999, at the time of the launching of Maharishi São Paulo Tower.
O Condomínio Absoluto can be purchased in bookshops all around Brazil for R$ 28.
The exhibit Minas Gerais: Contemporary Architecture took place November 14 at Casa do Baile cultural centre in Pampulha, Belo Horizonte. Vazio S/A takes part in the event with project Topographical Amnesias and asa lecturer in Urbanizing the buildings X Privatizing the City, a seminar presented on December 5, which was part of the exhibit program.
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The photos of residential building 285 Montevideo and landscape design Architectural Grafts shown below (both very different from each other!) are the models that we have been exhibited during the 8th São Paulo Architectural Biennial. The exhibit was on until December 6.
