Under the Square, Beach

03/10/2010 10:43 am

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The Ultimate Skyscraper – book launch

03/09/2010 08:02 pm

 The book O Condomínio Absoluto (C/Arte, 230p, 2009) will be (re)launched at the School of Architecture at UFMG (Rua Paraíba, 697, Belo Horizonte) as part of seminar Semana da Arquitetura organized by IAB (Brazilian Institute of Architects).

Brazilian Soap Opera with plot based on Maharishi Tower

01/25/2010 04:03 pm

The following note was published in Estado de São Paulo newspaper in last December: “Brazilian playwright takes to screen the story of the mega tower that didn’t get off the ground”. I’m not kidding: three days before the launch of my book, O Condomínio Absoluto (or The Ultimate Skyscraper) in São Paulo (02/12/2009), a huge piece of news announced Tempos Modernos, a new Brazilian soap opera inspired on São Paulo Tower by the former guru Yogi Maharishi – exactly as in O Condomínio Absoluto!!! (See the post “The Ultimate Skyscraper” above). Tempos Modernos started on January 11 and it is exactly like any other Brazilian soap opera. Protagonists: Antônio Fagundes, Fernanda Vasconcelos, Vivianne Pasmanter, Guilherme Weber. Plot: Leal Cordeiro, played by Antônio Fagundes, is a crazy businessman who wants to build the highest building in Latin America!



Bosco creates mythical São Paulo on television (O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper, November 29, 2009)
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(…) According to playwright Bosco Brasil, a piece of news published in O Estado de São Paulo on May 13, 1999, surpassed expectations of even the most experienced in all sorts of absurdities. In a nutshell: “Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi invests US$ 1,65 billion in the building of a 494 metre high building with 103 floors in the centre of São Paulo”. The mega-investment, named the Maharishi Tower of Peace, would have 1.3 million square metres of shops, a convention centre, a mall, offices, hotels, a residential centre, universities, restaurants and a theatre.  The project included a transport system with buses, trains, an underground branch, a heliport and a monorail, which was used to reach the several parking lots and the main tower. The piece of news forecasted: “According to the schedule, the cornerstone will be launched at the beginning of 2000”. Read More »

Victoria & Albert Museum

01/06/2010 01:00 pm

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 six-stage structure with attached booths that works as a vertical theater. Other six installations will compose the exhibition, all of them chosen out of 18 proposals presented by selected practices of cutting-edge architects.

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World Architects

01/05/2010 06:38 pm

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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Pium-í Building

01/04/2010 04:36 pm

Vazio S/A finishes the residential building 285 Montevideo in April this year, and in May it might start building Ed. Pium-í. The images below are temporary and show the pilled apartments that make up the striated volume of the building. As well as the 285 Montevideo, in Ed. Pium-í all the apartments are different from each other.


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O Condomínio Absoluto – The Ultimate Skyscraper

12/09/2009 11:30 am

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) – 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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O Condomínio Absoluto – published by Livraria da Vila, São Paulo

11/28/2009 02:19 pm

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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 Exhibition at Casa do Baile

11/11/2009 08:51 pm

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 as a 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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Vazio S/A in São Paulo Architecture Biennial

11/11/2009 04:54 pm

The photos of the residential building ‘285 Montevideo’ and the garden ‘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 is on show until December 6.

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