BBQ house where beef is speciality. Your sirloin is grilled table aside, it is considered São Paulo's one of the best steakhouses.
A 1950 house museum surrounded by a lush tropical garden with 25,000 trees.
The dance floor of Lions Nightclub is illuminated by walls of lights that change colour
Sonique can be a lounge, a restaurant, an art gallery (audiovisual performances and modern art exhibitions) or a dance club, depending on the night or the mood of the clientele.
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, home to the HQ of the Parlamento Latino-Americano, the Memorial is also at the heart of current cultural, political and economic negotiations.
A permanent collection of Ohtake’s work + temporary exhibitions displaying modern or contemporary art, the Instituto houses a restaurant, a cafe, a bookstore, a shop + 4 lecture halls/screening rooms.
The Instituto is honoring architect Lina Bo Bardi, an archive of artifacts + objets d’art while it promotes the work of contemporary Brazilian artists whose work focuses in some way on architecture.
The building itself is probably the most interesting sculpture in its collection; best way to enjoy it is from outside, on a walk down the “architectural promenade” that ends at the Museum of Sound
find out about Brazil’s most interesting modern artists or what the great Tropicalia movement was all about; it has a laboratory for interactive media + houses an archive of historical photos of SP.
Originally built in 1979 from designs by modern architect Rino Levi, the Gallery of the Industry Federation of the State of São Paulo simultaneously celebrated work produced by artists and factories.
Located in a 1940s house with no sign on the door. An oriental-style garden with a giant 30-year-old Brazilian Jabuticaba tree sits at the back.
Gigantic, multi-layered steel + concrete building (designed by Eurico Lopes and Luiz Telles) also accommodates numerous art and museum collections; charges are cheap or non-existent.
Built in 1963 as a more prosaic commercial gallery, this Oscar-Niemeyer-style building became a haven for rock’n’roll fans in the 1970s, when Baratos Afins led an incoming charge of record stores.
something out of a science fiction film. It stretches across 3 individually themed floors: an intimate sake lounge in the basement, a sushi bar in the middle + a private room upstairs.
