Conde do Pinhal

History

Conde do Pinhal is a single-tower residential building raised in 2005 by Construtora Adolpho Lindenbergi in Jardim Américai, at the point where Rua Bela Cintrai leaves Consolaçãoi behind and enters the fabric of the Jardinsi. The project appears in the construction progress report published by the builder itself, which recorded it at this address with the foundations 80% complete in February 2003 — two years before delivery. It is a building of the generation that succeeded the neighbourhood’s great classics: fewer units per floor, still-wide floor plans, and the leisure area already built into the project.

• Concept: two flats per floor on a central block of the Jardins — low density on a walkable address.
• Trivia: the name honours Antônio Carlos de Arruda Botelho, the Conde do Pinhal (1827–1901), a coffee baron and founder of São Carlos — part of the São Paulo tradition of naming buildings after imperial titles.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, two flats per floor, and a design decision that reads from outside: the volume is one, and the repeating floor rises whole to the top, where the duplex penthouse takes up two floors and opens the living room onto the terrace — it is there, and only there, that the building changes shape, and it is through there that the skyline enters the home. Inside, the building was built with its own generator, an item the 2005 generation still treated as a differentiator. The authorship of the architectural project is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: a single tower, 2 flats per floor.
• Sizes: units between 192 m² and 250 m²; duplex penthouse of 365 to 370 m², with 3 en-suites.
• Parking spaces: from 3 to 6, depending on the unit; 5 to 6 in the penthouse.
• Structural highlights: generator; duplex penthouse across two floors, with the living room integrated into the terrace and an open view over the city.

Leisure and facilities

• Swimming pool
• Gym

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim América: the address

Two names for the same address

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

Jardim Américai is São Paulo’s first garden neighbourhood — laid out at the start of the twentieth century with mandatory setbacks, protected tree cover and a low height limit — and its eastern edge, where Rua Bela Cintrai runs, is the point where the neighbourhood meets the dense city. From here you can walk to Rua Oscar Freirei, Rua Augustai and Avenida Paulistai without taking the car; and return, on the same block, to the silence of a tree-lined street. Few addresses in São Paulo have both things at once.