Sao Paulo art

Rua Casper Líbero with Oscar Niemeyer's Edifício Monroe 1954 skyscraper in the forefront.

Pateo do Collégio.

São Paulo's architecture in 1954: Niemeyer's Monroe building on Rua Casper Líbero; Banco do Brasil building; Edifício CBI at Praça Ramos de Azevedo; Conde Matarazzo's at Praça do Patriarca which would one day become the City's Town Hall; four residential buildings on Rua São Luiz corner with Av. Ipiranga: São Thomaz, Santa Virgília, Santa Rita & Palácio Roosevelt; at Largo do Arouche Academia Paulista de Letras; at Anhangabaú the huge Brasilar building; Edifíco Mara at the corner of Rua Brigadeiro Tobias and Rua Coronel Batista da Luz;

Temples of 1954 São Paulo: Sé Cathedral still under construction; Syrian-Lebanese Orthodox Church on Av. Vergueiro at Paraíso; Christian Congregation in Brazil situated at Brás; Sancta Efigênia's Church: Independent Presbyterian Church at Rua Nestor Pestana. 

Parque Dom Pedro II. 

Praça da Sé. 

Vale do Anhangabaú. 

Cine Dom Pedro II.

Rua Brigadeiro Tobias in 2015.

1960 dysfunctional Sao Paulo

'São Paulo, cidade sem alma' (S.Paulo a city with no soul) is an article that appeared at 'O Cruzeiro', the most popular illustrated Brazilian magazine in 1960. It showed a city that cared little for its poorer inhabitants. A city that gave a shit to those who built their miserable shacks bordering fetid brooks flowing with raw sewage and poison. 

Successive conservative local governments did little to alter this situation through the decades. Have a look at some of these pictures. The worst of all is to realize that after more than 60 years very little has changed.

Pateo do Collegio

1954.

Ladeira General Carneiro in the early 1950s.

Largo do Tesouro, Ladeira General Carneiro and Viaducto Boa Vista in the 1950s. 

Ladeira Porto Geral between Rua 25 de Março & Rua Boa Vista, in 1957.