Endossa is basically a lot of tiny little shops inside a shop. The idea for the collaborative store is to give a chance for so-called mini-micro-entrepreneurs to sell something. This entrepreneur may be a beginning fashion designer, someone who makes small presents or accessories, or even homemade sweets and pepper sauce. The small entrepreneurs can [...]
In the periphery of São Paulo a new fast-food chain is expanding. The ironically named McFavela started up in shantytown Bairro das Pimentas, soon opened a second franchise in favela Pantanal and is looking for new locations. The funny name as well as the affordable and decent food make the concept a success. For how [...]
Cine Paulistano offers alternative cinema, exhibitions and other cultural activities for free or at low prices. It will therefore stimulate cultural life in downtown São Paulo and help revitalize this area. The project transforms the ground floor of a building from the 1940´s – currently in use as a parking garage – into a cultural [...]
Various attempts were made to excavate a canal linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, from around 1850 BC by pharaoh Senuserett III, until it was finally completed by the Persian conqueror Dario I in 500 BC. In the following centuries it was destroyed, abandoned and rebuilt several times. The modern Suez Canal, from Port [...]
O Jardim Botânico de São Paulo, no parque estadual Fontes do Ipiranga, abriu o Córrego Pirarungaua (afluente do riacho do Ipiranga), que havia muito tempo estava tampado. Foram instalados um leito de concreto com algumas quedas, taludes verdes e um deque suspenso para pedestres. Assim a cidade recuperou um elemento natural de importância histórica e [...]
