Abstract
Just five years after its inauguration in 1941, the São Paulo Jockey Club (or Hipódromo Cidade Jardim), originally designed by Elisário Bahiana (Rio de Janeiro, 1891 - São Paulo, 1980), underwent an almost total renovation under the works of the French architect Henri Sajous (Bordeaux, 1897 - Nice, 1975), who transformed it into the largest Art Déco complex, in occupied area, in the world…