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Concrete remembers everything.
A walk through Lina Bo Bardi's SESC Pompéia, forty years after it opened — and why São Paulo still argues about it.
The pool on the fourth floor.
The sports block rises in four stacked slabs, joined to its twin by flying concrete bridges. Each walkway is shaped differently, as if poured by a different hand. Children run across them between swimming and judo; nobody looks down.
Holes, not windows.
Bo Bardi called the openings "caves of prehistoric men". They have red wooden lattices instead of glass, and the wind moves through the whole building. By Maren Okonkwo · Photographs by Tomás Ferreira