Barão de Iguape Building is a

skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...

in the older area of downtown São Paulo, Brazil, in height with 37 floors, located on

Patriarca square The Patriarca Square (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Praça do Patriarca'') is located in the Sé (district of São Paulo), Sé district, in the Historic Center of São Paulo, historic center of the Brazilian São Paulo, city of São Paulo. I ...

on the corner of Direita and Quitanda streets. Its construction was completed in 1959. The building was for years the

headquarters Headquarters (commonly referred to as HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the to ...

of a bank, Unibanco, but this was transferred to another building on the Marginal Pinheiros expressway, next to Eusébio Matoso bridge in the southwestern neighborhood of

Pinheiros Pinheiros (, “pine trees”) is a district in the subprefecture of the same name in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Prior to development, the land which this borough occupies was dominated by the dense forest which contained a Brazilian subt ...

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