[Trantor]

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



http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/pan01gg.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/pan02ggc-1.jpg

[JManc]

high rises? where?

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

[Urban Zombie®]

That's a whippersnapper it is!

[UrbanImpact]

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

[MolsonExport]

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]

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]

Wow, kind of reminds me of Ithaca. ;) :D

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

[phillyskyline]

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

[Trantor]

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]

if you cant see the pic, maybe you can see this one, a bit smaller version
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/pan01g.jpg

[gutooo]

Thanks for posting here trantor :D

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

The smallest one should show up for everybody:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/pan01p.jpg

[JManc]

Wow, kind of reminds me of Ithaca. ;)

you nuts? :koko:

ithaca is much bigger than that rinky dink town. :yes:

[mSeattle]

GGAM! :tup: :worship:

[Trantor]

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.

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9048/sampabf6.jpg


some bonus pictures
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/latinohunk/Four/IMG_2993.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/latinohunk/Four/IMG_2994xl.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/latinohunk/Four/IMG_2996xl.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/latinohunk/Four/IMG_2997.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/latinohunk/Four/IMG_2998.jpg




this is the CENU complex, and the middle tower, the higher one, is the North Tower, from where the panorama pics were taken.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber025.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber028.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber037.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber038.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber041.jpg

other highrises in the area
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber034.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber033.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber031.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber022.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber020.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/berrini/ber005.jpg

[Trantor]

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)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu001.jpg

northeast
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu002.jpg

north
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu003.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu004.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu005.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu008.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu010.jpg


WEST
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu011.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu012.jpg


SOUTH
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu013.jpg

NORTHWEST
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu021.jpg

still NORTHWEST
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu022.jpg

NORTH again
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu023.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu025.jpg

[Trantor]

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!!!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu025.jpg

[Fabb]

This city has a tremendous potential.

[dimondpark]

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]

just came for tourism? Or to visit someone?

[mSeattle]

What's this under construction?

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu012.jpg

[gutooo]

What's this under construction?

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/gutooo/do%20cenu/docenu012.jpg

Its a bridge!

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c160/DANIELPEREIRADEJESUS/PONTE-AGUAS-ESPRAIADAS31.jpg

I took the pics from the top of the tallest tower!

[Trantor]

^a cable bridge

[dimondpark]

just came for tourism? Or to visit someone?

Both, plus some business to take care of.:D

[Chicago Shawn]

Holy mother of God, now that is a real concrete jungle. So much girth in that skyline, it just needs some height now to perfect it.

[excel]

amazing place. crazy bridge as well.

[bennywah]

this city is the 3rd or 4th largest metropolis in the world according to the world census and wikipedia, so rinky dink it is not, if you caught discovery atlas, brazil they did an awsome segment on san paulo, an how helicopters help the commute!!

[A-town]

You gotta be kidding me, Sao Paulo is dense as hell! And that is one hell of a bridge, seems like that part of the city is going with a more modern all glass architecture style.

[Bergenser]

wow, too bad about the height restricts... :(
imagine with 5-6 supertall's in that skyline! :D

[cur_sed]

It'd be Shanghai! :P
Y'know, I think I'm more attracted to the 'highrise jungle' type cities than those with really compact focal pints to their skylines. Places like Vancouver, Seoul or Tokyo. Of course, the greatest higrise have both (NY, Hong Kong, Shanghai etc).

[Trantor]

^true about NY, HK and Shanghai (and in fact, also Seoul and Tokyo). São Paulo might be on this list if not for the stupid height restrictions! :(