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    The document discusses balconies that have been converted into private pools overlooking the city. It notes that the 1977 Condomínio Edifício Penthouse building in São Paulo was likely the first to have pool balconies. While initially providing an open air space, balconies mutated into private cells above the city complete with their own pools. The building later became a symbol of inequality as the Paraisopolis slum developed in its shadow, representing the physical and mental distance between the luxurious lives with pool balconies versus those at street level.

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    The document discusses balconies that have been converted into private pools overlooking the city. It notes that the 1977 Condomínio Edifício Penthouse building in São Paulo was likely the first to have pool balconies. While initially providing an open air space, balconies mutated into private cells above the city complete with their own pools. The building later became a symbol of inequality as the Paraisopolis slum developed in its shadow, representing the physical and mental distance between the luxurious lives with pool balconies versus those at street level.

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    The document discusses balconies that have been converted into private pools overlooking the city. It notes that the 1977 Condomínio Edifício Penthouse building in São Paulo was likely the first to have pool balconies. While initially providing an open air space, balconies mutated into private cells above the city complete with their own pools. The building later became a symbol of inequality as the Paraisopolis slum developed in its shadow, representing the physical and mental distance between the luxurious lives with pool balconies versus those at street level.

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    PAGE 162 BALCONY

    POOLS
    Severed from the life of the street, the balcony mutates
    from being an opportunistic bit of open air space, to a
    private cell in the sky, complete with its own pool.

    1977 Condomínio Edifício Penthouse, São Paulo,


    is likely the first building in the world to have pool
    balconies. Designed and constructed when the
    area is a blank slate (left), before the Paraisopolis
    slum springs up in its shadow, the tower later
    becomes a readymade cliche about inequality,
    a symptom of the mental as well as physical
    distance separating the life of the balcony from
    the life of the street.

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