Horacio Lafer Itaim

History

Developed by Cyrela Brazil Realtyi, Horacio Lafer Itaim (known as HLI-120) is a high-end building anchored on Av. Horácio Lafer, a short walk from Parque do Povoi, Shopping JK Iguatemii and Faria Limai. Delivered in 2008, it grew out of an unusual bet for its era: instead of fixing the ideal floor plan, the project chose not to fix it at all, leaving the decision to whoever would live there.

• Concept: the flexible high-end floor plan, shaped to the resident’s will.

Architecture and aesthetics

The building’s gesture is structural, not decorative. There are few internal columns, and almost no wall within a unit carries load: in practice, the apartment can be redesigned — walls come down, rooms merge, and the same slab accommodates layouts that bear little resemblance to one another. That explains the wide range of sizes in circulation, from around 200 to 410 m² in a building with two apartments per floor: over nearly two decades, units have been thoroughly renovated and the building has absorbed the changes without structural work. Twenty-six storeys, a spacious terrace and copper plumbing — a period detail the following generation of buildings stopped bringing. The architectural design credit is not publicly documented and is therefore not attributed here; nor is there a public credit for interiors or landscaping.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: contemporary high-end.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, 26 storeys, 2 apartments per floor, 54 units, 3 lifts.
• Sizes: range of around 200 to 410 m² (there are smaller, renovated units of around 185 m²); 2 to 4 bedrooms, with 3-suite layouts.
• Parking: depends on the unit.
• Structural highlights: flexible floor plan (few internal columns), spacious terrace and copper plumbing.
• Registry and parameters: plot 2,375 m² · frontage 48 m · 1 tower · 26 storeys · 2 units per floor · 54 units · 4 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · 3 lifts · private areas of 202 m² (standard) and 352 m² (penthouse) · registry jurisdiction 4th São Paulo Property Registryi · zoning ZM · buildable ratio 2x · height limit 28 m.

Leisure and facilities

• Adult and children’s pools and a heated lap pool
• Full gym with changing rooms
• Zen space with massage room
• Rest room
• Children’s playroom
• Playground
• Gourmet space
• Function room
• Squash and tennis court and games room

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itaim Bibi: the address

Number 120 sits at the start of Avenida Horácio Lafer, at the point where it leaves the residential core and meets the office axis of Itaimi. It’s the business face of the neighbourhood: Pátio Victor Malzonii is just over a hundred metres from the gate, Shopping JK Iguatemii under six hundred, and Parque do Povoi around six hundred and thirty. The upside is literal — the walk to a meeting is shorter than the walk to the park — and so is the trade-off: this is the busy, fast-moving Itaim, not the tree-lined residential one.