Solar São Paulo

History

Solar São Paulo dates from 1994, a vintage when Itaimi still had land to spare. The tax plot measures 1,125 m² and the tower covers a footprint of about 213 m²: the rest became the podium and open ground. The design’s authorship is not documented in any public source and is therefore not attributed here. What is reliably documented is the siting — and it explains why the building remains hard to replicate on the same street.

• Concept: one flat per floor, a square floor plan and a generous setback — privacy resolved by the plot, not by the wall.
• Curiosities: the tower measures about 48.5 metres tall according to the municipal building register. The zoning that now applies to the plot is ZM, with a 28-metre height limit: a new building on this same plot would stop twenty metres short.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower with one flat per floor, set on a podium of about 840 m² that houses the garage and common areas. The typical floor’s footprint, about 213 m² for a unit with 172 m² of private area, confirms what agents who have visited describe: the whole slab is the flat, with minimal circulation. The floor plan is square and the tall windows run along all four faces, with no building attached and no internal light well. The setback and the plot’s spare land do the rest of the work. Design, interior and landscaping credits are not publicly documented.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: a single tower, one flat per floor.
• Floor sizes: 172 to 178 m² in the plans currently in circulation, with 3 bedrooms (3 en suite); some units have had the fourth bedroom absorbed into the living room, with recorded sizes as large as 285 m².
• Parking: 3.
• Structural highlights: generator, central water heating, accessibility in the common areas and its own podium for the leisure area.
• Registry and parameters: 1,125 m² plot · 1 tower · 1 flat per floor · 3 bedrooms · 3 en suite · 3 parking spaces · private areas from 172 to 285 m² · building height about 48.5 m · handover 1994 · ZM zoning · 2x buildable ratio · 28 m height limit.

Leisure and facilities

• Outdoor swimming pool
• Barbecue area
• Sauna
• Gym
• Function room
• 24-hour concierge

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itaim Bibi: the address

Itaim Bibii is the neighbourhood where São Paulo works and lives on the same block. Rua Leopoldo Couto de Magalhães Júniori is one of the residential spines of that grid: it runs parallel to Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai and leads into the Parque do Povoi and Shopping JK Iguatemii area, with the restaurants and street-level shops of Itaim on one side and the green of the park on the other. It is an address that needs no car for almost anything and does not depend on a new launch to stay relevant — the street has been established for three decades and there is no land left to develop.