One of Oscar Niemeyer's most famous projects, the iconic Copan building in downtown São Paulo, may finally have its restoration work started. After being negotiated for ten years, the project ...

A couple tasked São Paulo firm Arkitito with spicing up a lackluster 452-square-foot apartment in the iconic Copan building using traditional mosaic flooring and nods to 1960s Brazilian design. When ...

The landscape of downtown São Paulo would not be the same without the presence of Copan. The building inserts Niemeyer's curves into São Paulo's dense verticality, creating a distinctive rhythm that ...

Brazilian design practice Estúdio BRA has reconfigured an apartment in the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Copan building in São Paulo, to make the most of its iconic facade. The 175-square-metre residence ...

There's no better place to appreciate the soaring vertical cityscape of São Paulo than the Edifício Copan, built by legendary architect Oscar Niemeyer. Former Travel Editor SÃO PAULO—Within the span ...

As the Brazilian president denies the death toll from COVID-19, the Copan building has taken its own measures to halt the crisis. The Copan, in São Paulo, is the largest apartment building in Latin ...

Hidden under a large blue tarp, the Copan reached its 50 year anniversary covered by a large piece of plastic and with changes intended to reinforce its tourist appeal. Anyone who walks the corridors ...

MASSIVE yet graceful, Edifício Copan partakes of the monstrousness of the city that surrounds it but is shaped by the sensuality of its architect, Oscar Niemeyer. Its curved form is meant to suggest ...

For the last eight years, 5,000 inhabitants of downtown São Paulo have had their view obscured by a net. It was December 2011 when Conpresp, the city's heritage preservation council, authorized the ...