Edificio Copan

is one of the most important and emblematic buildings in the city of Sao Paulo, located at number 200 Avenida Ipiranga, in the city center, and was inaugurated in 1966.

is one of the most important and emblematic buildings in the city of Sao Paulo, located at number 200 Avenida Ipiranga, in the city center, and was inaugurated in 1966.

is one of the most important and emblematic buildings in the city of Sao Paulo, located at number 200 Avenida Ipiranga, in the city center, and was inaugurated in 1966.

118.44 m (388.6 ft)

Edificio Copan rises in downtown Sao Paulo, designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer with structural engineering by Joaquim Cardozo and completed in 1966 to mark the city's Fourth Centenary celebrations. Its signature feature is a continuously curving, sinuous facade that wraps the building's mass into a serpentine plan rather than a conventional rectilinear tower, making it one of the most visually distinctive silhouettes on the Sao Paulo skyline. At 42 stories and roughly 118 meters tall, the building holds some 1,160 apartments across 120,000 square meters of floor area divided among six interconnected blocks, and at the time of its completion it contained the largest reinforced concrete structure in Brazil. Copan has long housed residents from a notably broad range of social classes alongside ground-floor shops and commercial space, a mix that has made it as much a working cross-section of the city as an architectural landmark. It stands today as one of the defining symbols of modern Brazilian architecture and of Niemeyer's international reputation.

Category:Modernist architecture in Brazil

The building has the largest reinforced concrete structure in the country, 115 meters high (377 ft.), 32 floors and 120 thousand square meters of built area, divided into six blocks, with a total of 1,160 apartments of varying sizes, according to an estimate of five thousand residents from different social classes and more than seventy commercial establishments.