Archive for 2008

Moving CEAGESP

CEAGESP is the largest food market in Latin America and the third market of this kind in the world, after New York and Paris. Each month 250 thousand tons of fruits, vegetables, fish and flowers are traded here and pass through the warehouses of the complex that occupies around 700.000 m2 in the Vila Leopoldina [...]

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Urban Age conference São Paulo

3-5 December. All seats for the event are already occupied, but a bundle of essays can  be downloaded from the website. The winner of the award will be announced 3 December. The event www.urban-age.net Download the ‘south america newspaper’ www.urban-age.net/0_downloads/SouthAmerica_Newspaper_eng.pdf

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Project map

I added a summary of projects I have worked on in Brazil to Google Maps. Click the “merten´s projects in brazil” button on the right, or click here.

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Espaços colaterais

Lançamento do livro Espaços Colaterais, organizado por Alexandre Campos, Wellington Cançado, Renata Marquez e Carlos Teixeira. Livraria Cultura do Conjunto Nacional, São Paulo. Hoje, 28 de Novembro, às 19h. www.vazio.com.br

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BR-3

The margins of the Tietê river are probably among the darkest and most deserted spaces of São Paulo. Trapped between 16 lanes of the Marginal expressway and a the highly polluted water, and mostly shaped as a cast concrete gutter, the Tietê riverbanks are no place to stay. Exept for a few months in the [...]

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