Millennium Palace

History

Millennium Palace was opened in 2014 by FGi (FG Empreendimentos) and, with 177.3 metres of architectural height and 46 floors, became the tallest building in Brazil — a title it would hold for several years, until it was overtaken by the next generation of skyscrapers in Balneário Camboriúi. At the time of completion, it was almost twice the height of the neighbouring buildings on Avenida Atlântica.

It is the second link in a documented record-breaking chain: it succeeded Ocean Palacei (2012), the city’s first modern record holder, in the lead, and was overtaken by Infinity Coast Toweri (2019), which in turn ceded the top to One Toweri (2022) and Yachthouse by Pininfarinai (2023). The lineage culminates, under construction, in Senna Toweri, designed to be the tallest residential building in the world.

• Concept: the full-floor residential skyscraper that took the Balneário Camboriúi seafront to the status of the tallest in the country.
• Curiosities: when it opened, it was almost twice the height of the neighbouring buildings, and for several years it topped the national lists of tallest buildings.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single reinforced-concrete residential tower, facing the sea. The design responds to the same regulatory logic that sculpted the Balneário Camboriúi skyline: the outorga onerosa (paid building-rights bonus) converts additional height into a payment to the municipality, and the front setback grows with elevation — the shading cone, calculated at an angle from the Avenida Atlântica axis, tapers the tower as it rises. The rule limiting the maximum number of units per plot area pushes the product towards very large apartments: here, the standard unit is practically a full floor, at 316 m².

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single residential tower of 46 floors (with 1 basement level), 36 apartments (CTBUH).
• Height: 177.3 metres of architectural height (168.0 m to the roof slab), confirmed by the CTBUH.
• Floor areas: standard apartment of 316 m².
• Parking: 144 parking spaces across the whole building (CTBUH).
• Structural highlights: reinforced-concrete structure · 23,783 m² of built area (CTBUH) · 3 lifts · 1 basement level · seafront position on Avenida Atlântica.
• Registry and parameters: building condominium on the Balneário Camboriúi seafront, Avenida Atlântica corner with Rua 2300 · structure entirely in concrete · land registry jurisdiction of Balneário Camboriú.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Balneário Camboriú: the address

Balneário Camboriúi is not a neighbourhood: it is the Santa Catarina city that turned verticalisation into an economic project and ended up with the most recognisable skyline on the Brazilian coast — a continuous wall of towers facing a crescent-shaped beach. Avenida Atlântica, hugging the sand, is the most contested axis of that race, and it was there that FGi concentrated the generation of skyscrapers that made the city the country’s largest hub of residential towers. Density has a price — the wall of towers shades the sand in the late afternoon, and what can be built along the front is a permanent political issue in the city.