Chagall Itaim Bibi

History

Chagall dates from 1985, from the vintage in which Itaim Bibii stopped being a neighbourhood of houses and began receiving large residential buildings, before Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai was widened and the surroundings turned into offices. The plot is 1,239 m² and received a single tower, with apartments of two hundred and twenty-five square metres — a family-sized floor plan, not an investor’s, on a street that never had passing trade. The project’s authorship and the builder’s name are not documented in any public source and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

• Concept: large floor space and triple parking on a short street with no through-traffic, just metres from the city’s busiest axis.
• Trivia: there is a second Edifício Chagall in the same neighbourhood, on Rua Itacema — newer, with smaller floor plans and a different profile. The two are mixed up on listing portals all the time; the one in this entry is the one on Rua Lopes Neto, 56, the 225 m² one with three parking spaces.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, built on a narrow, deep 1,239 m² plot. The building’s footprint barely exceeds the private area of one unit — which gives the measure of the design: few people per slab, the floor plan occupying almost the entire built area of the storey and circulation reduced to a minimum. It is the logic of the good São Paulo buildings of the early 1980s, when the common area was still small and all the value went inside the apartment: three bedrooms in two hundred and twenty-five square metres and parking for three cars, in a neighbourhood that today delivers a space and a half. The architectural project’s authorship is not publicly documented and is not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower.
• Sizes: 225 m² of private area, with 3 bedrooms.
• Parking: 3.
• Structural highlights: 1,239 m² plot with a single building; the tower’s footprint close to the private area of one unit, which reduces common circulation per floor.
• Registry and parameters: 1 tower · plot of 1,239 m² · private area of 225 m² · 3 bedrooms · 3 parking spaces · handover 1985 · zoning ZM · registry jurisdiction 4º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi.

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itaim Bibi: the address

Itaim Bibii is the neighbourhood that became a business centre without ceasing to be a neighbourhood: for every two blocks of corporate tower there is an entire residential street the market has not managed to buy. Rua Lopes Neto is one of them — short, one-way, ending at Rua Tabapuã, with no passing trade and very little remaining land. Around it is the best of the neighbourhood: Rua Tabapuã on the corner, Rua Joaquim Floriano with its restaurants and services, Rua Leopoldo Couto de Magalhães Júniori and Avenida Horácio Lafer on the way to Vila Nova Conceiçãoi, and Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai a few blocks away, with the corporate towers that reorganised the city around this street without touching it. You live on a neighbourhood street and walk to work.