King David

History

King David dates from 1998, one of the last vintages of large-slab buildings erected in the stretch of Higienópolisi that climbs towards Pacaembui. The condominium was formally established in August of that year. It is a short-street address: Itaguaba has a single postcode for its entire length and runs into the residential core organised around Rua das Mangabeiras and Rua Engenheiro Edgar Egídio de Sousa — the same fabric of blocks where the neighbourhood concentrated, over the course of the 1990s, the large-footprint buildings that still support the area’s prices today. The project’s authorship and the developer’s name are not publicly documented and are therefore not attributed here.

• Concept: large floor area and generous parking on a protected residential block — four spaces per unit in a neighbourhood where two is already good.
• Curiosities: the building’s name, King David, is a marker of the neighbourhood: Higienópolisi is home to São Paulo’s oldest and most established Jewish community, and the immediate surroundings bring together Colégio Rio Branco, Colégio FAAPi and Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi within a short walking radius.

Architecture and aesthetics

Single tower with a lift, set on a local-traffic street, with no avenue pressure on any face. The layouts in circulation range from 300 to 337 m², with three and four bedrooms and up to six bathrooms — the broad-slab design characteristic of the 1998 vintage, when floor area was still the main selling point of the high-end product in Higienópolisi. The architectural project’s authorship is not publicly documented and is therefore not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, with lift.
• Floor areas: 300 to 337 m² in the layouts in circulation, with 3 and 4 bedrooms and up to 6 bathrooms.
• Parking spaces: 4 per unit.
• Structural features: set on a local-traffic street, broad slab and four-space garage per apartment.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Higienópolis: the address

Two names for the same address

The plot sits on the border between Higienópolis and Santa Cecília, and both names are legitimate. The postcode registers Santa Cecília; the high-end market treats the address as Higienópolis. This entry adopts the name in common use and keeps the other for anyone searching by it.

Higienópolisi is the neighbourhood São Paulo built to live in and never converted into anything else. Rua Itaguaba sits in the north-western fold, where the neighbourhood meets Pacaembui: flat, tree-lined blocks with strictly local traffic, Avenida Pacaembu on one side as a quick way out and Praça Buenos Airesi and Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi a few minutes away on the other. It is the area that concentrates the traditional schools — Rio Branco, Sion, FAAPi — and the reference hospitals of the expanded centre, and is therefore also the part of the city with the lowest resident turnover: those who move in, stay. Recent verticalisation has found very little land, and the stock of large floor areas is practically all from the last century.