The Faceless City

There is no Empire State Building in São Paulo. No Petronas Towers or Big Ben. It's a city of 20 million people without a single iconic landmark. Jesus stretches his arms wide over neighbor Rio de Janeiro. Sampa isn't selling quite as many postcards.

To picture the sprawl of São Paulo, think about it this way: Take all of DC, all of Baltimore and all of everything in between and fill it with 10 to 20-story tall indiscernible buildings. That's it.

At lunch today, Dani and I skipped over a few Metro stops and went up in one of the city's taller skyscrapers to find the overwhelming.