Ilhas Gregas Jardim Paulista

History

Number 1186 Rua José Maria Lisboa is listed in the City’s fiscal register as a lot with condominium use (sector 014, block 015, condominium 04), on an 800 m² plot. The legal entity Condomínio Edifício Ilhas Gregas has existed with the Federal Revenue since 3 June 1986 — a date that falls within the wave of condominium formalisation the Revenue pushed through in the eighties, and for that reason is not treated here as proof of the construction date, only as confirmation that the building already existed by then. The development, the builder, the authorship of the architectural design and the delivery year are not documented in a source that withstands verification and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

What is proven is the identity. The postal service reserves an exclusive postcode for number 1186 under the name Edifício Ilhas Gregas — the same documentary proof of name the house has already used for the first building to inherit this name in the archive. There is no relation between the two: the other Ilhas Gregasi stands on the other side of the neighbourhood, at 350 Rua Professor Artur Ramos, in Jardim Paulistanoi — a complex of six towers on a plot of more than ten thousand square metres, nothing like this single tower on a small plot in the Jardins.

• Concept: an ordinary tower from the wave that added height to the residential heart of the Jardins between the seventies and eighties, on a narrow 800 m² plot — the kind of operation the street’s zoning no longer allows today.
• Trivia: the address itself is a case of a disputed neighbourhood, and not the only one on the block — the neighbouring Memphisi, a few doors down, records the same divergence. The postal service and the fiscal register call 1186 Jardim Paulista; part of the market advertises it as Jardim América or Jardins; and the property registry jurisdiction places it in the Cerqueira César sub-district. All three readings fit within the same plot — it’s the border of the Jardinsi running right through the same street.

Architecture and aesthetics

The tower sits on a fiscal lot that is small for the block’s standard — 800 m², against plots of more than a thousand square metres in the neighbouring condominiums on the same street and on nearby Peixoto Gomidei. It is this narrowness that explains a floor plan that takes up almost the whole storey: the units on offer have 350 m² of private area, with house-sized floor space spread across few apartments per floor. The architectural signature is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, on the 800 m² fiscal lot the City registers as a condominium.
• Floor areas: the units on offer have 350 m² of private area — one on the 5th floor, with 4 bedrooms (3 suites) and 8 bathrooms; another on the 10th floor, with 4 bedrooms (1 suite) and 6 bathrooms.
• Parking spaces: 2, in both units on offer.
• Structural differentials: 800 m² plot, one of the smallest among the condominiums registered on this stretch of the street; a floor plan that takes up almost the whole slab.
• Registration and parameters: 800 m² plot · fiscal lot sector 014, block 015, condominium 04 · condominium use (GeoSampa) · zoning ZM (Law 16.402/2016) · registry jurisdiction 13º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi, Cerqueira César sub-district · legal entity established in 1986.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Jardim Paulistai is the heart of traditional high-end São Paulo, and Rua José Maria Lisboa is one of the streets that runs through it end to end — residential, tree-lined, with no shopfronts, running between Avenida Paulistai and the Alamedas that give the neighbourhood its name. A few minutes’ walk away are Rua Oscar Freirei and the designer retail of the Jardinsi, Parque Trianoni and Paulista’s cultural life. It’s a fabric that has already gone through verticalisation: the street has no lot left for a second round, and what still stands — like this address — is what remains of a wave of construction the city no longer repeats at this lot scale.