Chateau Lafite

History

Built by Novomarcoi and developed by Bolsa de Imóveisi, with architecture by Pablo Slemensoni, Chateau Lafite is described by the developer as one of the most valued developments in the country. Neoclassical in style with a French garden, it borrows the name of one of the great châteaux of Bordeaux and looks out over the greenery of Praça Pereira Coutinho, in Vila Nova Conceiçãoi, beside its neighbours Chateau Margauxi and Clermont Ferrandi, on the same square.

• Concept: top-tier neoclassical, with a French garden facing the square.
• Trivia: the penthouses have tall, double-height ceilings, and the living room opens onto a balcony running its entire length.

Architecture and aesthetics

The repertoire is neoclassical and the garden is French — geometric, symmetrical, designed to be viewed from the front. It is not gratuitous ornament: with sixteen metres of frontage on a 1,927 m² plot, the building has little frontage and a lot of depth, and the symmetrical composition is what gives monumentality back to a narrow façade facing the square. Inside, the same logic applies: one apartment per floor, a living room with a balcony running the full length of the front and tall ceiling height, double-height in the penthouses. This is Pablo Slemensoni in the register that made him the most recurring architect of São Paulo’s top tier — architecture geared to the product, with fluid floor plans and buildable area pushed to the limit the plot allowed.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: neoclassical, with a French garden.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, about 17 floors (15 on the title), one apartment per floor, 3 lifts. Total leasable area of 12,712 m².
• Sizes: from 440 m² to 882 m² (penthouses are sometimes advertised at over 1,000 m²), with 4 suites.
• Parking: from 6 to 10 spaces; the 822 m² duplex penthouse comes with up to 10 spaces.
• Structural highlights: neoclassical style, tall and double-height ceilings in the penthouses and a living room with a balcony running its full length.
• Registry and parameters: plot 1,927 m² · frontage 16 m · 1 tower · 15 floors · 16 units · 4 bedrooms · 6 parking spaces · 4 bathrooms · 3 lifts · private areas of 441 and 822 m² (standard) and 822 m² (penthouse) · registry jurisdiction 14º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZEU · buildable potential 4x · unrestricted height limit.

Leisure and facilities

• Heated pool
• Solarium
• Gym
• Pilates room
• Sauna
• Spa
• Function room
• Multi-sports court
• Squash court
• Playground
• French garden
• 24-hour lobby

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Vila Nova Conceição: the address

Praça Pereira Coutinhoi is the geographic and social centre of Vila Nova Conceição: a tree-lined square with a playground and paved paths, named in honour of the physician José Pereira Coutinho, and the one spot in the neighbourhood where everyone ends up crossing paths. Addressing yourself to it means, in practice, having the whole week within a ten-minute walking radius — four hundred and thirty metres to Parque Ibirapuerai, just over two hundred to the block’s schools, half a kilometre to Hospital São Luizi, and the Afonso Braz shopping strip a few blocks away. There is no underground station within walking distance, and the neighbourhood has never minded: Vila Nova gets around on foot or by car, and it is the square that organises that radius.