Saint Tropez

History

Saint Tropez belongs to the generation that turned Morro dos Ingleses vertical, the high ground of Bela Vistai where the streets were named after European nationalities — dos Franceses, dos Ingleses, dos Holandeses, dos Belgas. The block around it is almost entirely from that same period, and Saint Tropez is the tallest of them. The development, construction and design credit are not documented in a first-hand source and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

• Concept: one flat per floor in a narrow, tall tower — the layout occupies the entire slab, with no neighbour on the landing and no shared wall.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single, slender tower: fifty-eight metres tall on a floor plate of just over two hundred and seventy square metres, which gives the vertical proportion seen from the street. With only one unit per floor, the flat gets windows on all four sides — and this is what the estate agents who visit the building note: high ceilings, large windows, spacious rooms and abundant natural light. Much of the stock in circulation has already been through a full refurbishment, with lighting automation and air-conditioning in every room. The credit for the architectural design, interiors and landscaping is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 1 flat per floor.
• Sizes: 250 to 267 m² in the standard layouts, with 3 to 4 bedrooms; the records in circulation also register units of 191 m², 240 m², 300 m² and a 475 m² penthouse with 4 en-suites.
• Parking: 3 in the standard layout; 2 in the smaller units and 4 in the penthouse.
• Structural highlights: own generator; high ceilings and a full-slab layout, with no shared wall.
• Registry and parameters: 1,355 m² plot · 1 tower · 1 flat per floor · tower height of 58 m and floor plate of 278 m², as measured by the municipal survey · private areas from 191 m² to 475 m² · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZEU, Law 16.402/2016.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Bela Vista: the address

Two names for the same address

The postal service registers this stretch as Morro dos Ingleses — a registry name almost no one uses. The market, the residents and anyone searching for it say Bela Vista. This entry adopts the name in common use: it is by that name that people search, advertise and buy.

Bela Vistai is the neighbourhood the city crosses every day without noticing it is residential. Morro dos Ingleses, up on the hill, is its opposite: a small grid of sloped, local-traffic streets, backing onto Avenida Nove de Julhoi on one side and a few minutes’ walk from Avenida Paulistai on the other — Parque Trianoni, MASP, the underground stations and the Paulista hospitals are all within walking distance. It is one of the few central areas of São Paulo where flats of over two hundred and fifty square metres can still be found in extremely low-density buildings, because the neighbourhood’s verticalisation stopped before it reached up here.