Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo

This guide to the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in São Paulo traces the building from its 1901 construction through Banco do Brasil's 1923 purchase and architect Hippolyto Pujol Junior's 1927 rebuild into the bank's first headquarters, with a basement vault whose bronze and steel doors weigh over a ton apiece. The bank departed in 1996, leaving the building quiet for years before restoration began under architect Luiz Telles.