Just off Paulista across from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) lies Parque Siqueira Campos, a beautifully designed and maintained park that re-creates the Atlantic rainforest that was leveled to build São Paulo. It’s a remarkably tranquil refuge just off the city’s busiest street.
Parque Siqueira Campos
São Paulo
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Copan was designed by late modernist master Oscar Niemeyer. The building, with its serpentine facade and narrow brises soleil (permanent sunshades), is…
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