Centro da Cultura Judaica, Cultural center in Pinheiros district, São Paulo, Brazil.

The Centro da Cultura Judaica is a cultural center in Pinheiros housed in a distinctive building featuring two cylindrical concrete towers connected by a curved facade that spans the main elevation. Inside, the center contains exhibition galleries, performance halls, and spaces for workshops and community events.

The institution traces back to the Instituto de Cultura Hebraica de São Paulo, a Hebrew-language teaching body whose board created a friends' association; that initiative led to the 1964 opening of the Casa de Cultura de Israel, backed by the Israeli embassy. In 1966 it became a non-profit civil society, with Leon Feffer as president emeritus and Elias Blankfeld as president until 1980. Recognised as a public-utility entity in 1992, it opened its current building in 2003.

The name recalls the Casa de Cultura de Israel inaugurated in 1964 with backing from the Israeli embassy in Brazil. Its programme has brought the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta to Sala São Paulo (2001 and 2005), an Anne Frank diary exhibition (2003), Coexistence at Ibirapuera's Praça da Paz (2006) and a Marc Chagall show (2008).

The building stands on Rua Oscar Freire in Pinheiros, on a steep public plot whose handover required a cultural space open to the population. Its diagonal placement responds to tight setback rules and to the nearby Sumaré metro station. The main and rear facades use smoked-glass brise-soleil fixed to a curved concrete pergola, letting light in while filtering rays and keeping the landscape visible.

The building's design subtly references the Torah scroll through its curved structural elements, with the cylindrical towers and flowing facade evoking the rolled parchment form. This design choice merges Israeli-Jewish symbolism with Brazilian modernist architectural language in an unconventional way.