Monte D'oro

History

Monte D’oro was built in 1996 on the odd-numbered side of Rua Bahia, in the residential heart of Higienópolisi. It belongs to the last generation of large-floor-area towers the neighbourhood still managed to develop before the land ran out: four bedrooms, a floor plan of 255 to 280 m² and parking for four cars, on a block that had already been consolidated for decades. The authorship of the project and the developer are not publicly documented and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

• Concept: a large four-bedroom slab in Higienópolis at an already-established address — new-neighbourhood floor area on an old street.
• Curiosities: Rua Bahia is home to so many large buildings that the postal service opened an exclusive postcode for six of them — Porto Fino at no. 107, Concord at 204, Acauá at 226, Pereira Barreto at 528, Golden Tower at 543 and Versalles at 603. Monte D’oro is on the odd-numbered side, almost directly opposite Pereira Barreto.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower. The gesture that defines the building is at the top: the penthouse is a duplex, and the second floor is not a supporting terrace, but an entire floor for entertaining, with a gourmet kitchen, games room, sauna and outdoor pool. It comes to 481 m² and six parking spaces. Visitors describe the climb as a change of scale: the first floor is a city apartment, with an integrated living room and three suites; the second opens onto an unobstructed view and works like a house. In the standard floor plans, the logic is that of the neighbourhood the building was born in — spacious living room, four bedrooms and full staff quarters.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower.
• Floor areas: 255 to 280 m² in the standard floor plans, with 4 bedrooms; 481 m² duplex penthouse with 4 suites.
• Parking: 4 in the standard floor plan; 6 in the penthouse.
• Structural highlights: duplex penthouse with pool and sauna on the upper floor; common leisure area and 24-hour security system.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · 4 bedrooms · 4 to 6 parking spaces · private areas from 255 m² to 481 m² · 5 to 8 bathrooms depending on the typology · delivered 1996.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Higienópolis: the address

Higienópolisi is the neighbourhood São Paulo built for living in before deciding that living well was a business. Rua Bahia cuts across the grid of states — Sergipe, Pará, Ceará, Piauí — in a flat, tree-lined layout that has barely changed since the 1950s, and which today holds one of the city’s largest concentrations of large residential buildings. All around, everything is within walking distance: Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi, Parque Buenos Airesi, Feira do Pacaembu, Hospital Samaritanoi, Colégio FAAPi and Escola Carlitosi. Avenida Paulistai and Estação Santa Cecíliai handle the rest of the city without the neighbourhood needing to take part in it — that is the trade Higienópolis has offered for seventy years, one that no recent development has managed to reproduce.