Tsunami of highrises!!! A mega-pano of a megalopolis! São Paulo!

Trantor · #1 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 10:57 AM**

EDITED
added a SECOND panoramic shot, covering an even larger area, but with less zoom.

JManc · #2 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 11:00 AM**

high rises? where?

seriousy..."saint paul", brazil is a lot of city.

Urban Zombie · #3 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 3:08 PM**

That's a whippersnapper it is!

UrbanImpact · #4 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 3:14 PM**

Awesome............Can't wait to go back! Hopefully I will make a pit stop there in July.

MolsonExport · #5 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 3:26 PM**

Jumpin' Jehosaphat! That is some serious city! What is with all the ugly transmission towers? They need something like a CN tower to combine all that crap together.

To bad there isn't a few clusters of supertalls to break up the monotony, and to provide a sense of orientation. But impressive, none the less.

UrbanImpact · #6 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 3:32 PM**

It's too bad there is a height limit in the city. There isn't a single building in Sao Paulo over 600 feet (roofline). For that matter I don't think there is a single building in Brazil with a building over 600 feet.

Trantor........do you know what the height limit in Sao Paulo is?

Ex-Ithacan · #7 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 3:56 PM**

Wow, kind of reminds me of Ithaca.

A big bruiser of a skyline. Sao Paulo is impressive for sure. Thanks Trantor.

phillyskyline · #8 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 5:07 PM**

A great pic showing off all that density! Would luv to see a cluster though of skyscrapers somewhere....

Trantor · #9 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 9:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by UrbanImpact

It's too bad there is a height limit in the city. There isn't a single building in Sao Paulo over 600 feet (roofline). For that matter I don't think there is a single building in Brazil with a building over 600 feet.

Trantor........do you know what the height limit in Sao Paulo is?

most, if not all brazilian cities, have stupid and low height limits. Tallest in São Paulo is 179 meters, and was build in the end of the 60s, before the height limit was created. In fact, if I am not mistaken, it was the tallest building in the southern hemisphere when built.

Well, the Banespa from 1947 was the tallest building in the WORLD (outside USA) when it was built...

Trantor · #10 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 9:48 PM**

if you cant see the pic, maybe you can see this one, a bit smaller version

gutooo · #11 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 10:06 PM**

Thanks for posting here trantor

Thanks for posting the smaller one also, the photobucket sever seens to be messep up

The smallest one should show up for everybody:

JManc · #12 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 10:15 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan

Wow, kind of reminds me of Ithaca.

you nuts?

ithaca is much bigger than that rinky dink town.

mSeattle · #13 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 10:32 PM**

GGAM!

Trantor · #14 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 10:44 PM**

and to think you can only see about 1/4 of the highrises on this picture...

the place where the two red dots almost connect is the place from where the panorama was taken: the north tower of the CENU Complex.

Then you can see the panorama angle. Notice that you can only see HALF the city in the direction of the pictures, because the Paulista Avenue is on a hill, and with the added height of the towers over it, it blocks the view to the other side of the city, where the old downtown, and some of São Paulo tallest buildings, like Italia, Copan, Banespa, etc, are located.

some bonus pictures

this is the CENU complex, and the middle tower, the higher one, is the North Tower, from where the panorama pics were taken.

other highrises in the area

Trantor · #15 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 11:06 PM**

other pics taken by Gutoo from the North Tower of CENU

looking towards east (beware, the GoogleEarth image I showed above is tilted, with the north at the right side of the picture)

northeast

north

WEST

SOUTH

NORTHWEST

still NORTHWEST

NORTH again

Trantor · #16 Posted **Jan 4, 2007, 11:13 PM**

some people confuse bad architecture for cheap buildings.

Do you see the whity tall highrise in the middle-left of this picture, with the black roof on the top??? Many of you may think its a cheap building, a commie block. Well, it is in fact a building with 1200 sq meter apartments/condos (actually, a condo is an apartment which you buy instead of renting) which cust over $15 million the apartment!!!

Fabb · #17 Posted **Jan 5, 2007, 1:27 PM**

This city has a tremendous potential.

dimondpark · #18 Posted **Jan 5, 2007, 5:17 PM**

Go Sampa!

Came down for a few weeks in Nov and had a great time(but I was mainly in Florianopolis)-Sao Paulo from the 2 days I spent there is just as gigantic and hectic as usual-thank God.

Trantor · #19 Posted **Jan 6, 2007, 1:40 AM**

just came for tourism? Or to visit someone?

mSeattle · #20 Posted **Jan 6, 2007, 1:57 AM**

What's this under construction?