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Edifício São Vito
São Paulo, Brazil
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A vertical city of squatters.

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Category:
housing
Phase:
demolished
Design:
Zarzur & Kogan
Updated:
24 July 2021
introduction

Edifício São Vito, popularly known as Treme-Treme (literally "Shiver-Shiver"), is a 112-metre (367 ft), 27-storey former residential building, located in São Paulo, Brazil. It was completed in 1959. Throughout its existence, the building later deteriorated and gained a reputation as São Paulo's biggest vertical cortiço (slum). The city expropriated and evacuated the building in 2004.

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Neighborhood: Terminal Parque Dom Pedro, bus station.

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Neighborhood: Parque Dom Pedro, a market of informal traders.

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Neighborhoodd: Rua Dom Pedro II, Dom Pedro II street

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Neighborhood: Parque Dom Pedro.

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