Verbena

History

Verbena is from the 1977 vintage — the moment when the Jardinsi were verticalising their internal streets with buildings of few units and large floor plans, designed for families trading a house for a flat without giving up square metres. The authorship of the project, the builder and the developer are not documented in public sources and are not attributed here. What the building tells of itself is in the floor plan: public transaction records for the address show, year after year, the same 251.38 m² unit with four bedrooms changing hands — on a high floor or a low floor, always the same area. It is a building of a single typology, with no variation between floors.

• Concept: a single, large floor plan, repeated from the first to the last floor — the design economy of the 1970s applied to an ultra-high-end address.
• Trivia: the largest unit circulating on the market is a 502 m² duplex — exactly double the standard floor plan, that is, two entire floors joined into a single unit.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, of classic residential design, with no architectural authorship documented in public sources. What defines the building is not the façade, but the repetition: 251.38 m² per floor, three to four bedrooms, up to five bathrooms and two parking spaces — the standard of a decade that sized a flat by its dining room and service area, not by its bedroom count. The common areas occupy the middle of the block, with a pool and a green setback that the block would no longer allow today.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 single tower, with one predominant typology repeated per floor.
• Sizes: 251.38 m² in the standard floor plan, with records of up to 270 m²; 3 to 4 bedrooms and up to 5 bathrooms. Listings in circulation also record a 502 m² duplex unit.
• Parking: 2 per unit.
• Structural highlights: common area with pool and green area in the middle of the block; 24-hour concierge.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · single typology of 251.38 m² · 3 to 4 bedrooms · 2 parking spaces · delivered in 1977 · registry jurisdiction 13th São Paulo Property Registryi.

Leisure and facilities

• Pool
• Gym
• Children’s playroom
• Green area
• 24-hour concierge

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cerqueira César: the address

Cerqueira Césari is the official name of a good part of what São Paulo calls the Jardinsi: the stretch where the residential streets fit between Rua Augusta and Rua Oscar Freirei, among shop windows, galleries and street-level trade that has crossed decades without losing its character. Rua Padre João Manuel is one of these internal streets — almost entirely residential, tree-lined, occupied by buildings of few units raised between the 1960s and 1980s. It is a consolidated address, with very little land left for new development, a few minutes from Avenida Paulistai and Club Athletico Paulistanoi.