Paulo Mendes da Rocha obituary

One of the greats of Brazilian modernist architecture whose tough, often austere concrete buildings were conceived as public placesHovering like a wafer-thin concrete halo, held aloft by six chiselled triangular blades, the Paulistano Athletic Club was a futuristic arrival to the Jardim América quarter of São Paulo when it opened in 1958. The concrete blades sprang from an elevated platform, each one resting on an impossibly minimal edge, rising to a point where pairs of taut cable