The Parliament

History

The Parliament is a Cyrelai development, marketed from 2005 in its high-end line in established neighbourhoods of the West Zone. The developer declares the plot at 1,257 m², a figure that matches the 1,258 m² recorded in the municipal tax register for the lot at Rua Traipu, 636 — it’s this coincidence that anchors the address’s identity, in a neighbourhood where English campaign names repeat. The building was born on a residential block in the interior, between Pacaembu and the boundary with Higienópolisi, and remains one of the few genuinely large-footprint addresses on the street. The architectural project is by Israel Rewini, named as author in the building’s municipal approval permit, from December 2004.

• Concept: house-sized floor area on a short plot — 330 and 540 m² of private area, four suites per unit and up to six parking spaces on a lot of just over a thousand square metres.
• Curiosities: the address has two official geographies at once — it’s Pacaembu for the Post Office and Perdizes for the municipal district. And the lot is classified as ZEU, the Structuring Axis for Urban Transformation under the 2016 zoning law: the law came to treat as a densification axis a stretch of the neighbourhood that had consolidated decades earlier as an area of houses.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, set on a narrow lot in an established neighbourhood. The design choice is legible in the floor plan before it is in the façade: with 330 m² in the smaller unit type and 540 m² in the larger, the building traded number of units for the size of each one — four suites per apartment and five to six parking spaces, a parking ratio unmatched in the immediate surroundings. The architectural project is signed by Israel Rewini.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, with two unit types on the market. The number of floors and units is not publicly documented.
• Areas: 330 m² and 540 m² of private area, with 4 suites.
• Parking: 5 to 6, depending on the unit type.
• Structural highlights: 1,257 m² plot, with private areas well above the street average.
• Registry and parameters: plot of 1,257 m² (1,258 m² in the municipal tax register) · single tower · 4 suites · 5 to 6 parking spaces · private areas of 330 m² and 540 m² · registry jurisdiction 2º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZEU (Structuring Axis for Urban Transformation).

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Pacaembu: the address

Pacaembui is the neighbourhood São Paulo designed to stay quiet. Laid out along the valley’s contour lines, with irregular blocks and mature tree cover, it resisted the high-rise development that took over everything around it — and the result is a neighbourhood of houses, schools and clubs a few minutes from three of the city’s centres of gravity. Rua Traipu runs through the upper stretch, next to the boundary with Higienópolisi and Perdizesi: from there you reach Hospital Samaritanoi and Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi on foot, and Avenida Paulistai by car within minutes. Estação Marechal Deodoroi serves the neighbourhood on Line 3 – Red, and Estação PUC-Cardoso de Almeidai, on Line 6 – Orange, was built along the axis running alongside it — the same axis that explains the lot’s ZEU classification.