Pinto Leite Building

The Pinto Leite Building, on the corner of Rua Sampaio Bruno and the Avenida dos Aliados, announced the opening of this new axis. Designed by Marques da Silva (1924), it was built to accommodate commercial establishments on the ground floor, offices on the remaining floors and residences in the roof. It systematically assumes the new look which was being sought to instill in the city’s civic center then under construction, as revealed in the erudite style of the economically dynamic exterior, in the materials used (concrete and granite), as well as in the use of the elements shaping the building’s height and spatiality such as the bow-windows.