Edificio Palácio do Comércio (São Paulo, 1955). Palácio do Comércio Building.
The Vista Alegre building (1944-1948), developed by the Polish architect with Francisco Beck, is located at 62 Boa Vista street at the start of the Viaduto da Boa Vista, designed by Oswaldo Arthur Bratke and B. Gaucherry between 1930 and 1932. It articulates the level difference between General Carneiro Ladeira and Boa Vista street. In this same period, another work by Lucjan Korngold -in José Bonifácio street next to the Saldanha Marinho building- uses a form of corner insertion and façade organization very close to the Vista Alegre building, but in a reduced scale version for a lower building. The Lucjan Korngold studio kept in these years the same intensity of production than in the previous decade, with buildings for Palácio do Comércio (1954), SESPA (1955), Seguros Gerais A Piratininga (1955), Bolsa de Cereais (1955) Gerbur (1956), Mendes Caldeira (1958) and Bolsa de Mercadorias (1960). The CBI-Esplanada building (1946-1956) connects the plot with a vertical circulation core (double central and back) articulated by a central void, separating the facilities in two sets of four service cores and a circulation, where the elevator and facilities system stand out. The Palácio do Comércio (1955), built on the corner of 24 de Maio and Conselheiro Crispiniano streets overlooking the Municipal Theater of the city, has a ground floor with gallery passage and an escalator leading to a second level in the basement. In the Thomas Edison building (1944-1948) by Korngold and Beck, we can see the ground floor with a loggia defined by the columns along the central access, in the same way as the ground floors of CBI-Esplanada and Bolsa de Cereais, next to Vale do Anhangabaú.
Edificio Palácio do Comércio, planta tipo. Palácio do Comércio building, typical floor plan
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