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Palace of Justice of São Paulo

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Master João Mendes. However, this would take too much time and urgent action was needed. Therefore, Dr. Ulpiano da Costa Manso, secretary of the Court, proposed that the trial court be transferred to another rented building near the Palace. The proposal was authorized and the building was rented. Still, the relocated lawyers and judges were installed in precarious conditions, causing irritability and dissatisfaction.
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Upon entering the Palace of Justice, visitors can see the marble and granite coverings that line its floors. Inside the building, more precisely on the fifth floor, one finds the Portrait Room, where images of all those who have been presidents of the Court of Justice are exhibited. This is where the
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touch, and therefore had luxurious and ornate finishes. The construction began on the site that housed the old cavalry barracks, in the year of 1920, and had its conclusion and inauguration in the year of 1933, thirteen years later, and reinaugurating in 1942, in honor of the anniversary of 388 years
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After a while, shortly after its inauguration and the admiration for its spacious and luxurious structure, the Palace of Justice began to face a period of difficulties, mainly due to the great growth of the city of São Paulo. The result was overcrowding at the Court's headquarters. The situation was
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At the time, the Palace was so crowded that its bathrooms had to be used as offices for work. In order to rid the building of this urgent overcrowding, steps were taken, such as the project to erect another building next to it, which would function as an extension of the Palace and bear the name of
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The first seat of the Court of Justice was called the Court of Appeal of the Province of São Paulo (Tribunal da Relação da Província de São Paulo in Portuguese) and was created on August 6, 1873, by decree number 2,542. At that time, the Court was located at Rua da Boa Vista, near Rua 3 de Dezembro
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The central hall of the Palace is known as the Hall of Lost Steps ("Salão dos Passos Perdidos" in Portuguese) and is where visitors can access the rest of the building. This hall used to be the waiting area for visitors attending trials. The Salão Nobre ("Noble Saloon") or Ministro Manoel da Costa
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Lastly, there is the Jury Court, which is the place where some events held by the Magistrate currently take place, in addition to competitions and lectures. It has a decorative aspect with Renaissance characteristics, especially on the ceiling. In this space, important trial processes took place,
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The architect Ramos de Azevedo was responsible for the design of the building and supervised the work until his death in 1928. After the fatality, Ricardo Severo and Arnaldo Villares took over the works. The workers who participated in the project were mostly immigrants from Italy and Spain.
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The Palace of Justice had its cornerstone laid on August 24, 1920, in front of Rua Onze de Agosto. Although the stone was only laid on that date, the idea of realizing the project was already incubated in June 1911 by the then-Secretary of Justice and Public Security
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The inauguration ceremony of the Palace of Justice took place on January 2, 1933. The session was attended by Minister Urbano Marcondes de Moura, who was responsible for delivering the speech, making his remarks about the Palace, often in a lyrical tone.
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and symbols of the judiciary. The interior space features panels, stained glass windows, murals and paintings. The architectural style - both of the interior and the façades - is ecletic, combining baroque and neoclassical elements.
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The inauguration of the new building was accompanied by a novelty: from that moment on, the judiciary became decentralized, since courts were created that were located in the districts of the city.
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ordinary sessions of the trial chambers are currently held. In the past, it was used for selection processes for entry to the judiciary and examinations for the Public Prosecutor's Office.
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becoming more and more worrying, to the point that in 1946, the then-president of the court Mário Guimarães made a statement to announce what the Palace space was going through.
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in Brazil in 1889, the federative structure of the country followed, assigning, in 1891, the judicial competence to the former
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The building was one of the first in Brazil to use metal structures. It has luxurious finishes and ornaments such as
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During the construction works, Ramos had the support of Domiziano Rossi, who designed the Palace based on the
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needed to be housed in a new headquarter, and no longer in old mansions in the central region of São Paulo.
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in 1981 for being considered a historical landmark with architectural and cultural value to São Paulo.
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Images of former members of the São Paulo Court of Justice exhibited at the Palace of Justice
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The construction works suffered setbacks, the greatest of which occurred during the
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and the Public Prosecution Office of the State of São Paulo, as well as the
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Manso Room, is a space used for elections, meetings of the Council of the
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Noble Hall ("Salão Nobre") "Ministro Manoel da Costa Manso"
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The building was listed in 1981 by the State Government.
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At the time, the Court was presided over by Counselor
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The building was erected in neoclassical style with a
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is the seat of the Court of Justice of the state of
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p.38. Arquicultura - FAU-USP. Retrieved 11/15/2016.
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Ecletic
CONDEPHAAT
São Paulo
Brazil
Coordinates
23°33′7″S 46°37′59″W / 23.55194°S 46.63306°W / -23.55194; -46.63306
Ramos de Azevedo
www.tjsp.jus.br/Museu/PalacioDaJustica
São Paulo
São Paulo
Praça da Sé
São Paulo Cathedral
Municipal Chamber of São Paulo
Matarazzo Building
Order of Attorneys of Brazil
Law School of the University of São Paulo
Court of Justice
proclamation of the Republic
Provinces of the Empire
Palace of Justice of Rome
baroque
CONDEPHAAT
1924 São Paulo Revolt

Rua 25 de Março
Tristão de Alencar Araripe
Brazilian Constitution of 1891
Washington Luís

Palazzo di Giustizia

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