Located on Harmonia Street on the west side of São Paulo, the Harmonia 57 residential building was designed by Olivier Raffaëlli, Gregory Bousquet, Guillaume Sibaud and Carolina Bueno of the French-Brazilian architectural firm Triptyque, launched in São Paulo in 2000. The team designed the building with “pores” in the concrete from which plants grow, and every aspect of the structure’s functionality—drain pipes, pumps and the water treatment system—are celebrated and left open on the exterior. Earlier this year, the firm participated in “Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Building,” which consisted of artists, architects and designers celebrating the museum’s 50th anniversary by filling its huge rotunda space with various installations. Photo 6 of 10 in Finotti at Centre Culturel by Erika Heet

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Located on Harmonia Street on the west side of São Paulo, the Harmonia 57 residential building was designed by Olivier Raffaëlli, Gregory Bousquet, Guillaume Sibaud and Carolina Bueno of the French-Brazilian architectural firm Triptyque, launched in São Paulo in 2000. The team designed the building with “pores” in the concrete from which plants grow, and every aspect of the structure’s functionality—drain pipes, pumps and the water treatment system—are celebrated and left open on the exterior. Earlier this year, the firm participated in “Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Building,” which consisted of artists, architects and designers celebrating the museum’s 50th anniversary by filling its huge rotunda space with various installations.