5+ hour, 18+ min ago  (728+ words) —The pair. Atenas and Puriscal both sit in Costa Rica’s western Central Valley, near San José. —The pricier one. Atenas is more established and more expensive, with a large expat community. —The cheaper one. Puriscal is more rural, cooler and…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (861+ words) —The show. The Pinacoteca in São Paulo is hosting Knockout, a major survey of Pascale Marthine Tayou. —The artist. Tayou is a Cameroonian artist with more than twenty-five years of international work. —The first. It is his first solo exhibition…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (713+ words) —The building. A former convent from 1920 in the Ipiranga district is being converted into homes. —The project. Named Alma Mater, it will hold fifty-one residences, from studios to a penthouse. —The cost. The developer is investing about sixty million reais,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (668+ words) Brazil · São Paulo · Housing A quiet São Paulo property push is handing residents the one document that turns a home they live in into one they legally own, free of charge. On June 17, São Paulo’s city hall handed out 670 free…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (478+ words) Uruguay · Step by Step Renting an apartment in Uruguay is straightforward once you clear the one real obstacle — the guarantee. Here is how the garantía works, the newer guarantee-light route foreigners can actually use, the neighbourhoods that suit newcomers, and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (187+ words) Argentina · Step by Step Buenos Aires housing runs on two parallel tracks — one built for foreigners, one that takes work to enter and pays off in price. This step of our Argentina series covers renting an apartment in Argentina: which…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (840+ words) —The closing date: Ruy Ohtake — Percursos do Habitar closes on Sunday, May 31, at the Casa-Atelie Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo’s Campo Belo district. —The inaugural show: The exhibition opened on March 7 and inaugurated the Casa-Atelie as a permanent cultural-programming space…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1127+ words) SÃO PAULO · CITYSCAPE —The headline: The São Paulo Times Square panels suspension came on Wednesday when Judge Celina Kiyomi Toyoshima granted a liminar halting the Boulevard São João project at the Avenida Ipiranga and Avenida São João intersection. —The project:…...

11+ mon, 2+ day ago  (456+ words) For decades, Morumbi — a district in São Paulo’s southwest — represented the pinnacle of wealthy living. Originally developed in the late 1940s from the old Fazenda Morumbi, it was marketed to upper-class families seeking space, greenery, and distance from the busy center....