One Tower

History

One Tower was completed in December 2022 by FGi (FG Empreendimentos) and, with an architectural height of 290 metres and 70 storeys, joined the list of the country’s tallest buildings. According to the CTBUH, it is the third-tallest building ever built in Brazil — behind only the two towers of Yachthouse by Pininfarinai (294 m, 2023) — and one of the tallest in South America.

It is the fourth link in a well-documented chain of Balneário Camboriúi records: on completion in 2022, it succeeded Infinity Coast Toweri (2019) at the front of the country’s completed buildings, before Yachthouse by Pininfarinai took the top spot in 2023. The lineage traces back to Millennium Palacei (2014) and Ocean Palacei (2012), and moves forward, under construction, to Senna Toweri, designed to be the tallest residential building in the world.

• Concept: a seafront residential super-skyscraper, with a glass skin and large flats, on the most expensive stretch of Avenida Atlântica.
• Curiosities: the floor count varies by source — the CTBUH records 70 storeys, while the developer’s materials and other sources go as far as citing 84 floors, counting technical and podium levels.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single reinforced-concrete residential tower, with a glass skin facing the sea. Its design responds to the same regulatory logic that sculpted Balneário Camboriúi‘s skyline: the outorga onerosa converts additional height into a payment to the municipality, and the front setback grows with elevation — the shading cone, calculated from an angle off the Avenida Atlântica axis, narrows the tower as it rises and produces the slender prow characteristic of the seafront skyscrapers. The rule capping the maximum number of units per plot share pushes the product towards spacious flats and few units per floor. The lifts are high-performance, running at 5 m/s.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: a single residential tower of 70 storeys (CTBUH; up to 84 floors in other counts).
• Height: 290 metres of architectural height (291.4 m to the tip, including the aviation warning light), confirmed by the CTBUH from verified drawings — the third-tallest building in Brazil.
• Sizes: flats of 194 to 210 m².
• Structural features: reinforced-concrete structure · glass skin · 5 high-performance lifts, running at 5 m/s · top occupied floor at 217.4 m.
• Registry and parameters: building condominium on the Balneário Camboriúi seafront, Avenida Atlântica · structure entirely in concrete · registry jurisdiction of Balneário Camboriú.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Balneário Camboriú: the address

Balneário Camboriúi is not a neighbourhood: it is the Santa Catarina city that turned verticalisation into an economic project and ended up with the most recognisable skyline on the Brazilian coast — a continuous wall of towers facing a crescent-shaped beach. Avenida Atlântica, hugging the sand, is the most contested axis of this race, and it was there that FGi concentrated the generation of skyscrapers that made the city the country’s largest hub of residential towers. Density has a price — the wall of towers shades the beach in the late afternoon, and what can be built along the front is a permanent political issue in the city.