Football (Soccer) Museum
Museum built into a stadium's hollow understructure, exposing the raw concrete of its nineteen-forty grandstands.
This guide to the Football (Soccer) Museum in São Paulo starts underneath Pacaembu Stadium, in a room of raw concrete pillars that were never meant to be seen. It traces the stadium's construction in 1940, its reinforced concrete stands a rare engineering feat for the time, and the seventy years the ground beneath the bleachers sat forgotten before architect Mauro Munhoz was handed an unusual brief in 2008. His team carved roughly six thousand nine hundred square meters of exhibition space among the stadium's support columns. Look up as you walk through, and trace the poured concrete and joints of the bleachers still holding the crowd above your head.
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