[bossabreezes]

Monkey, yes. There was a law in São Paulo that restricted the amount of land constructed on per lot. For instance, if there was an empty lot that a developer purchased, they could only build the tower portion of the building on X percentage of the land.

This created skinny buildings in the middle of lots. Since the lots in SP are generally small, the buildings were placed in the middle of the lot and constructed vertically on the same footprint.

Now, this law is more lax and we're seeing more innovative designs in smaller spaces.