Port Arthur

History

Port Arthur is from the last generation in which large plots were bought in Itaimi to build residential towers. The tax lot measures 1,745 m²; the municipal building register records a tower of around 50.8 metres in height there, with a 249 m² footprint, set on a 1,315 m² podium. In numbers: the leisure base is five times bigger than the tower. Market sources date the building to 1988 or 1989 — they diverge by one year, and that is why the delivery field is left blank here; what does not diverge is the decade. The design authorship is not documented in any public source and is not attributed.

• Concept: one apartment per floor across sixteen storeys, with the rest of the plot turned into common area — the “club building” model of 1980s Itaim.
• Curiosities: the tower measures around 50.8 metres. The zoning that applies to the plot today is ZM, with a 28-metre height limit: the building standing there is nearly twice the height current law would allow. The 1,315 m² podium would also not fit within today’s occupancy rules.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single sixteen-storey tower, one apartment per floor, over a platform that covers most of the plot. The typical floor footprint — around 249 m² for a unit with 220 m² of private area — confirms the single-unit-per-slab layout: the lift opens onto the family’s own floor and the plan occupies the whole storey, with balconies on more than one face. The façade and common areas went through a retrofit later in the building’s life. Design, interior design and landscaping credits are not publicly documented.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, 16 storeys, one apartment per floor.
• Floor areas: 220 m² in the standard plan, with 3 bedrooms, all en suite, and 5 bathrooms.
• Parking spaces: 4 marked spaces, with a private box in the basement.
• Structural highlights: 1,315 m² podium dedicated to common area; tower around 50.8 m high on a 1,745 m² plot.
• Registry and parameters: plot 1,745 m² · 1 tower · 16 storeys · 1 apartment per floor · 3 bedrooms · 3 en suites · 4 parking spaces · 5 bathrooms · private area of 220 m² · building height around 50.8 m · zoning ZM · buildable potential 2x · height limit 28 m.

Leisure and facilities

• Pool
• Court
• Gym room
• Sauna
• Function room
• Playground
• Garden
• 24-hour lobby

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Itaim Bibi: the address

Itaim Bibii packs, into a few blocks, the city’s financial centre and a neighbourhood life that has survived it. Avenida Horácio Lafer is one of the streets that stitches this together: residential in layout, short in length, linking the fabric of Itaim to the area around Parque do Povoi and Shopping JK Iguatemii, with Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Limai a few minutes away. It is an address for those who work nearby and don’t want to live in a corporate tower — restaurants, street-level shops and the park are all within walking distance, and land for development ran out long ago.