Sao Paulo, Brazil. Facing a vast green area, including the city’s busiest park, the Ibiripauera, the design for this high-end residential building takes advantage from the superb visuals and at the same time brings the surrounding green to the footsteps and façades of the apartments. With a careful design of the façade, the terraces are rotated in order to enhance the views towards the park, clearly establishing a relationship with the green mass. They are also unevenly shaped, resulting in higher ceilings to receive larger pieces of vegetation. A building ment to became a landmark in the city
Established since 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil, Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados has developed over 1.000 architecture, urbanism and planning projects representing over 10.000.000,00 square meters. During these decades Königsberger Vannucchi developed a wide experience in Commercial, Housing, Corporate, Urban Planning, Cultural and Mixed Use projects. Their principals, architects Jorge Königsberger and Gianfranco Vannucchi, have had their articles, lectures, essays and books published in Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, United States, England, Korea, Russia, China, etc. Their work has been frequently awarded in Brazil and abroad, including the “III Buenos Aires International Biennale of Architecture Prize” and the “World Annual Prix D’ Excellence 2005“ from FIABCI - International Real Estate Federation, for the best world Multipurpose project of the year – the “BCP Complex” in São Paulo.
Gafisa is a Brazilian company whose operations are focused on the development and civil construction of residential and commercial properties. Its portfolio of projects includes high-luxury residential condominiums, commercial buildings, flats and shopping centers. Gafisa is one of the most important and respected developers in the upper-middle and upper class segments in Brazil. Its activities are concentrated in the metropolitan areas of the states of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Founded over 60 years ago it has always been innovative and pioneering in both project development and implementation. Among the various milestones and conquers of this history of success, we can highlight: More than 1,100 middle-income and high-income real estate developments in Brazil. More than 16 million square meters in more than 30 cities. Today, over one and a half million people live in apartments with the Gafisa brand. The 4th project in the world to be awarded the Leed® CS 2.0 Platinum Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), granted by the U.S. Green Building Council for the variety of sustainable solutions implemented. 1st building developed by consumer's ideas sent via Facebook