Tag Archives: Arquitetura

Born in Brazil – Wallpaper May 2010

The latest edition of Wallpaper magazine, “Born in Brazil | Nascida no Brasil,” features a panel (aka incredibly  hyper-colorized) from recent projects, including our project 285 Montevideo.
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Pium-í Building

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 [...]

O Condomínio Absoluto – book launch at Livraria da Vila, São Paulo

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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 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 [...]

Vazio S/A in São Paulo Architecture Biennial

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.

Message to Oscar

Fernando Lara, former teacher at the  Taubman College (MI) and professor at the Texas University, tell us about a conversation he heard some days ago…
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Message to Oscar
Fernando L Lara
The phone ringed in the middle of the night and he got it quickly, jumping out of the bed as if a century had no weigh. On [...]

Vazio S/A – The Developer (practice)

At the beginning of this year I published the article ‘Incorporações’ (Developments) on the architecture online  journal  Vitruvius [see post below: “Vazio S/A – Developments (theory)”, which describes an academic research done in 2002]. Vazio S/A put it into practice six years later, in partnership with Primus Engenharia. The first residential building designed and developed by [...]

BCMF Architects: Mineirão-Mineirinho 2014 World Cup Stadium

The office BCMF Arquitetos, coordinated by Bruno Campos and Marcelo Fontes, was hired by GPA&A to conceive the concept study of the new Mineirão for World Cup 2014. The staff – complemented by architects Silvio Todeschi and Carlos Teixeira – presented  an ambitious architectural and urban proposal that will transform the stadium into a [...]

Philip Johnson

Text published in the local journal Letras do Café in October 2007, whose theme was “money.”
Carlos Teixeira

On the criticism that his projects were easy: “It is because I am a bad architect.” On the activity of the architects: “The duty of an architect today is to create beautiful buildings. That is all.” On his style, [...]

H3O Third Water Park

The first square in our project, “H30″ (or Third Water Park) in the Serra’s slum, Belo Horizonte, has just been delivered to the population. It’s the Square Academy, a wall that serves as a battery of fitness equipment.

Copan – a Rio/Sao Paulo hibrid

Commissioned by the French magazine l’Architecture d’Aujord’Hui, ‘Copan: Hybrid Rio / Sao Paulo’ is the result of a conversation between Carlos Teixeira and Afonso Prazeres, manager of the Copan building. The article was published in November 2007 in an edition entirely dedicated to Niemeyer’s 100th birthday.

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Certified in Guinness Book, the numbers of [...]