Palais Imperial

History

Palais Imperial has been constituted as a condominium since January 2004, the date on which the building was registered with the Federal Revenue Service — which places the building’s completion at the start of that decade. The architectural project is by Israel Rewini, named as author in the municipal permit for approval and execution of the building, from May 2003. The construction company’s name, however, is not documented in a primary source: the attributions circulating in the market diverge from one another and none is confirmed at source, and for that reason it is not attributed here. What the building declares of itself is the plan: twenty-one floors, one family per floor, and a duplex penthouse occupying the entire top.

• Concept: one apartment per floor across twenty-one floors, on a narrow plot in Jardim Paulistai — privacy resolved by the layout, not by the setback.
• Trivia: the building’s duplex penthouse is a suspended house. On the lower level, four suites and the living room with terrace; on the upper level, pool, sauna, changing room and barbecue area on one side, and three rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows on the other — the city skyline on one flank, the greenery of Parque Ibirapuerai and the lake on the other.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, twenty-one floors, one apartment per floor, served by two social lifts. Privacy is not a façade ornament: with only one unit per slab, the lift opens into the family’s hall and the layout can occupy the entire floor, with no shared wall. The terraces wrap around the social area and are the element that organises the façade — in the standard unit, embracing the living room; in the penthouse, turning into an entire floor. The project’s signature is Israel Rewini‘s.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 21 floors, 1 apartment per floor.
• Sizes: 349 m² in the standard layout, with 4 bedrooms and 4 suites; circulating records also list duplex penthouses of 742 m² and 907 m².
• Parking: 5 in the standard layout; 8 in the duplex penthouse.
• Structural highlights: two social lifts, terrace wrapping the social area, private storage room and full staff quarters in the standard units; air conditioning in all bedrooms.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · 21 floors · 1 apartment per floor · 3 to 4 bedrooms · 4 suites in the standard unit · 5 to 8 parking spaces · private areas from 349 m² to 907 m² · condominium registered with the Federal Revenue Service since January 2004.

Leisure and facilities

• Heated lane pool
• Children’s pool
• Gym
• Pilates room
• Massage room
• Dry and wet sauna
• Children’s playroom
• Playground
• Function room
• Gourmet area
• Garden
• 24-hour concierge

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Jardim Paulistai is the neighbourhood where São Paulo learned to live well and never unlearned it, and Rua Guarará is one of its residential spines: it runs from Avenida Paulistai towards Parque Ibirapuerai, stitching together the tree-lined avenues of Jardinsi and passing alongside the street-level shops, restaurants and galleries that gave the region its name. It is an address consolidated for decades — the road network, the tree cover and the services are already in place, and very little land remains for development. Those who live here get through the week on foot and reach the rest of the city in minutes by car, via Avenida Nove de Julho and Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônio.