The right angles of São Paulo
If you were to lock an unimaginative eight year old in a room for several months with an infinite supply of Legos and nothing to eat but bread and Adderall, the São Paulo cityscape is pretty much what you’d end up with. São Paulo is a city of evenly spaced squares, obedient rectangles, and rows of parallel lines which, when they’re feeling a bit naughty, intersect at perfect perpendiculars with other rows of parallel lines. Being in a country as charmingly anarchic as Brazil, it’s really odd to see this sort of geometric regularity– so odd, in fact, that I didn’t even notice it until I climbed to the top of São Paulo’s skyscrapingest skyscaper to get the Mount Olympus view of the city. As you can see, much as chaos may reign over Brazilian life, its empire does not extend to the architecture of São Paulo:
