Sharon Tower

History

The Sharon Tower was built in 2002 on the stretch of Rua Bahia that climbs from Higienópolis towards Avenida Angélica — the strip where the neighbourhood concentrated, over four decades, its collection of large residential towers. It is a street of inventory: within a few blocks stand the Concord, the Acauá, the Bahia Sergipe, the Monte D’oro, the Pereira Barreto, the Golden Tower, the Versalles, the Coral Bayi and the Bay Five, among others — neighbours the Post Office recognises one by one, each with its own building postcode. The authorship of the project and the developer’s name are not documented in a first-hand public source and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

• Concept: a single tower with large floor plans and many parking spaces, on a Higienópolis block that no longer had vacant land by the time it went up.
• Curiosities: the Post Office register splits Rua Bahia into two postcodes by parity — 01244-001 for the odd-numbered side, where no. 555 stands, and 01244-000 for the even-numbered side. Many listing sites publish the wrong side’s postcode. The stretch is a rare case where the Post Office neighbourhood (Higienópolis) and the administrative district (Consolação) do not coincide, and both are correct, each at its own scale.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, a narrow vertical volume — the typical layout of the mid-block plots on Rua Bahia, where the building gains height because it lacks width. The building belongs to the generation of Higienópolis that followed the neighbourhood’s modernist classics: less ornament, deep floor plans, balconies incorporated into the living room, and parking sunk across several basement levels to accommodate the five spaces per unit. The architectural authorship is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower. The number of floors and units is not confirmed by a first-hand source.
• Floor areas: the standard unit in circulation has around 291 m² with 4 bedrooms and up to 6 bathrooms; there are larger units, of 370 m². The most recent available public transfer record points to a unit of 291.65 m².
• Parking spaces: up to 5 per unit.
• Structural highlights: basement-level garage for up to five spaces per apartment; balconies in the living room; live-in staff quarters in the original floor plan.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · 4 bedrooms · up to 5 parking spaces · private areas around 291 m², reaching 370 m² · built in 2002.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Higienópolis: the address

Higienópolisi is the neighbourhood São Paulo built so as never to have to leave it again. Rua Bahia crosses the residential core between Avenida Angélica and Rua Sergipe, a few minutes’ walk from Shopping Pátio Higienópolisi, Parque Buenos Airesi and Praça Vilaboim, and within easy reach of FAAP, Mackenzie and Hospital Samaritanoi. It is a neighbourhood of institutions: schools that have spanned generations, reference hospitals, the city’s highest concentration of Jewish life, and street-level shops that never needed a mall to survive. Avenida Paulistai lies just above, and the Line 6–Orange metro, under construction, is preparing the rail transport link the neighbourhood has never actually had. From the top of Rua Bahia, what comes into view on the other side is the Pacaembu valley.