Skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil, built in 1971 and caught fire in 1974
Edifício Praça da Bandeira
The renovated building in 2008
General information
Location
São Paulo, Brazil
Opened
1971
Renovated
1974–1978
Height
94 m
Technical details
Floor count
25
Floor area
1,500 m2
Lifts/elevators
4
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Salvador Candia
Edifício Praça da Bandeira, formerly known as the Joelma Building, is a 25-story building in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, completed in 1971, located at Avenida 9 de Julho, 225. On 1 February 1974, an air conditioning unit on the twelfth floor overheated, starting a fire. Because flammable materials had been used to furnish the interior, the entire building was engulfed in flames within twenty minutes. Of the 756 people occupying the building at the time, 179 were killed and 300 injured.
The Joelma Building fire happened less than two years after another deadly fire in downtown São Paulo, that of the Andraus Building. As of 2021, the Joelma fire remains the second-worst skyscraper fire ever in terms of the death toll, after the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.[1]
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