Editorial.

Neighbourhoods, architecture, dining and daily life: what Hunter House observes in the addresses it follows.

Architecture · 3 min read

Higienópolis in three buildings: Artigas, Rino Levi and Artacho Jurado

Between Praça Vilaboim and Avenida Higienópolis, three buildings from the 1940s and 1950s show how the neighbourhood learned to live high up without giving up the garden.

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Neighbourhoods · 3 min read
Jardim América: the neighbourhood designed so the house would sit behind the garden
Planned by Companhia City from a layout by the English architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, São Paulo's first garden suburb remains faithful to the idea behind it, a century later.
Museums and exhibitions · 3 min read
MuBE: the museum Paulo Mendes da Rocha hid beneath a square in Jardim Europa
Exposed concrete, a Burle Marx garden and a 60-metre slab: the museum residents chose over a shopping centre became one of the most studied works of São Paulo architecture.
Architecture · 2 min read
The houses that drew modernism between Alto de Pinheiros and Vila Madalena
Names that defined twentieth-century Brazilian architecture left private houses in this area, many still lived in, few of them visible from the street.
Clubs · 2 min read
Esporte Clube Pinheiros: more than a century of sporting life in the neighbourhood
Founded by a German immigrant in 1899, the club changed its name, opened the city's first Olympic pool and still shapes the weekends of those who live nearby.
Neighbourhoods · 2 min read
Perdizes: the neighbourhood named after the noise of its birds
From late nineteenth-century farmsteads to today's university life, Perdizes has built a rare identity: tree-lined tradition a few steps from the expanded centre.
Dining · 2 min read
Higienópolis at the table: the addresses that span generations
Between converted mansions and cantinas that have not changed hands in decades, the neighbourhood keeps a dining routine explained less by novelty than by permanence.

Editorial.

Higienópolis in three buildings: Artigas, Rino Levi and Artacho Jurado

Jardim América: the neighbourhood designed so the house would sit behind the garden

MuBE: the museum Paulo Mendes da Rocha hid beneath a square in Jardim Europa

The houses that drew modernism between Alto de Pinheiros and Vila Madalena

Esporte Clube Pinheiros: more than a century of sporting life in the neighbourhood

Perdizes: the neighbourhood named after the noise of its birds

Higienópolis at the table: the addresses that span generations