#copan building

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Copan Building. São Paulo, Brazil,2017,

Photo by José Manuel Ballester

[keepingitneutral]

Copan Building, São Paulo, Brazil,

Designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1966,

Estúdio BRA Arquitetura,

Photographs by Maíra Acayaba

[moonrockworld]

Oscar Niemeyer - COPAN Complex, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1950.

[archiveofaffinities]

Oscar Niemeyer, Copan Building, Plan, São Paolo, Brazil, 1951

[danismm]

Copan Building, Oscar Niemeyer. São Paulo, Brazil. 1967

[pietromenditto]

edificio copan, sao paulo - platform || pietro menditto

[sheldongardnerphotography]

The Edifício Copan Building by Sheldon Gardner Via Flickr: Sao Paulo

[enforme]

"Exploring the Edificio Copan"

Frieze visits Pivô, a new art space housed in Oscar Niemeyer's iconic Copan Building in downtown São Paulo, Brazil.

Oscar Niemeyer's communist visions come through in his architecture in already-urbanized spaces, both via their imaginative idealism and the lofty goals they fail to reach. 

The current "real estate frankenstein" is attempting to revitalize its dilapidated art spaces. 

Pivo in English means "pivot": as its name suggests, it hopes to be the pivotal point around which a new scene is establishing itself.