Given the need to fulfill an agenda dedicated to climate action and sustainable development goals, the panel aims to present programs and projects being implemented in Rio de Janeiro and S\u00e3o Paulo and currently on display at this 14th International Architecture Biennial. Under the theme "reviving the center," these initiatives seek to activate existing spaces and care for the people and public who daily experience these spaces in central areas. The presented projects focus on proposing urban recovery and the recovery of existing structures that were closed, ensuring their restoration, transformation, or "retrofit," and urban reinsertion. Joint action and collaboration between public authorities, the business sector, and architecture and urban planning are essential to implementing successful projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The panel's guests will include the president of the National Front of Mayors (an organization representing more than 415 cities), Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes, elected for the 2025-2027 term. He will meet with former S\u00e3o Paulo Secretary of Culture and cultural producer Al\u00ea Youssef, one of the people responsible for the recently inaugurated Galeria Formosa restoration project under the Ch\u00e1 viaduct, and architect Marta Moreira, partner at the MMBB architecture firm, winner of the recent competition to repurpose the former Mapping building in downtown S\u00e3o Paulo for Sesc Galeria, a competition promoted by Sesc and organized by IAB-SP. The panel will be moderated by IAB-SP president Raquel Schenkman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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