Machine for Viewing: The renovation of the top floors of a 1960s apartment building created in an airy triplex with breathtaking panoramic views of Rio de Janeiro.
“In Rio, the landscape comes to you,” Brazilian architect Arthur Casas says about his commission to renovate a penthouse apartment in Rio de Janeiro's Urca neighborhood. Casas, who has an office in São Paulo, plus one in New York City, had quite a landscape to work with. The rear of the apartment looks southeast onto Sugar Loaf Mountain; the front faces west to the forested mountain ridge that culminates in the Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) statue on Corcovado Mountain; to the north, residents have long vistas across Guanabara Bay.
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