Capanema 74

History

The building occupies number 74 Rua Barão de Capanema, even-numbered side, in Cerqueira Césari — the land-registry name for the stretch the city calls the Jardinsi. It circulates on the market as Capanema 74, and the number became part of the name out of necessity: the Edifício Capanema proper is the next-door neighbour, at number 76, a different building, with much smaller floor plans. The city’s property surveys disagree on the year of construction — between 1975 and 1978 — and for that reason this entry does not fix a year. The construction is by Construtora Adolpho Lindenbergi, which lists it among its completed works at this same address and under this same name. The authorship of the project and the development are not publicly documented and are not attributed here.

• Concept: a 355 m² duplex on a dead-end street in the Jardinsi, a walk from Clube Paulistanoi — house-scale floor area on a block that has not received a new building in more than thirty years.
• Trivia: Barão de Capanema is one of the few streets in the Jardinsi where every building is a single tower — seventeen, counted one by one by those who work the street. It is also a market street: on Thursdays the open-air market occupies the stretch from Rua Peixoto Gomide to the end of the road. And this building’s name is disputed in the records: part of the market registers it as Edifício Capanema, part as Edifício Castagneto — number 74 ended up being the tiebreaker.
• Not to be confused with: this building, on Rua Barão de Capanema, in Cerqueira Césari/Jardins, is the one the market disputes between Edifício Capanema and Edifício Castagneto — hence the number 74 in the tiebreaking name. Not to be confused with Castagnetoi on Rua Bahia, in Higienópolisi, built by CEVN — Elias Victor Nigrii: they are distinct buildings, by distinct builders, that only share part of the disputed name.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, from the generation that the whole of Barão de Capanema belongs to: buildings from before the 1990s, with few floors and few apartments per floor, with large floor plans and almost no common area. The standard unit in circulation has 355 m² spread over two levels — downstairs, a living room with fireplace and double-height ceiling, dining and lunch rooms, a home theatre, a wine cellar, a pantry, a kitchen and staff quarters; upstairs, the suites, with central air conditioning. The architectural authorship is not documented in a public source and is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower.
• Floor areas: 355 m² on the floor plan in circulation, over two levels, with 3 bedrooms, 2 full suites and 4 bathrooms.
• Parking spaces: 5 to 6.
• Structural highlights: duplex unit with double-height ceiling and fireplace in the living room; central air conditioning in the private wing; visitor parking spaces.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · private area of 355 m² · 3 bedrooms · 2 suites · 4 bathrooms · 5 to 6 parking spaces · registry jurisdiction 13º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cerqueira César: the address

Cerqueira Césari is the land-registry name for the neighbourhood the city calls the Jardinsi. Rua Barão de Capanema runs through the flat part, parallel to Rua Estados Unidos, begins as a side street off Alameda Casa Brancai and ends without an exit at Galeria Augusta — which leaves it with traffic almost exclusively from residents. It is one of the most sought-after streets in Jardim Américai for a simple reason of geography: here, the flatter the land and the closer to Clube Paulistanoi, the more expensive the square metre. Market on Thursdays, dense tree cover and no new building since the 1990s.