São Paulo Apartment by Luiz Solano Softens Original Brutalist Interior From 1960s

Brazilian architect Luiz Solano has unveiled his renovation of a São Paulo apartment located inside the Araucária Building, built in the 1960s by Rino Levi. Cleared of its dividing walls, the now open plan space gives voice to Brutalist characteristics of the historic building but also invites a natural warmth through contemporary touches. While the original plan divided the apartment into three areas, Solano took down the internal masonry, leaving only functional closets as partitions.The mai...