Stone Claddings in the Corporate Real Estate Enterprises Citicorp Center and Rochaverá Corporate Towers in Sao Paolo, Brazil

This article deepens the theme treated in other¹that approaches the evolution of the productive chain and of the technology of application of stone cladding in Sao Paulo, Brazil. For the study of this productive chain it is noticed that there takes place growing improvement of the quality of these claddings. Now two important buildings are analyzed: Citicorp Center (1986) and Rochaverá Corporate Towers (2012). This work is in the context of extensive research for realization of the thesis of doctorate of the author in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo, Brazil,² where is valued the quality of contemporary projects, executed in the last 30 years, which adopted claddings with stone plates in his facades and relevant aspects of the productive chain of the industry of the rocks.