Regency

History

The Edifício Regency was delivered in June 1992, on Rua José Maria Lisboa, in the heart of Jardim Paulista, a few steps from Parque Trianon and Avenida Paulista. It is an ultra-high-end residential tower with a single flat per floor across 22 storeys — full-floor layouts (552 to ~1,258 m²) crowned by a triplex penthouse. It offers complete leisure facilities: a heated pool, a gym, a squash court, a sauna and a gourmet area.

Architecture and aesthetics

The design premise is scale. The Regency was not designed as a large flat, but as a house within a tower — and the difference shows in the programme: three to six suites per unit, a two-room living area, an ample utility area, the building’s own central heating and generator, and leisure facilities that in 1992 a residential building rarely bothered to build, with a squash court, home cinema and games room. The gesture that defines it is that transposition — everything a street-level residence offered, stacked and made collective, without the individual floor area giving up a single metre. The authorship of the architectural project, the interiors and the landscaping is not publicly documented and is therefore not attributed here: what this building signs is the floor plan.

Aesthetics and scarcity

• Aesthetics: classic, of very spacious layouts.

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower.
• Sizes: from 552 to about 1,259 m² (3 to 6 bedrooms, 3 to 6 suites). Master suite with a hydromassage tub and walk-in closet, two-room living area.
• Parking: 5 to 9 spaces.
• Structural highlights: very spacious layouts, ample utility area, central water heater and generator.
• Registry and parameters: single tower · private areas from 552 to about 1,259 m² (3 to 6 suites, 5 to 9 parking spaces) · registry plot of 2,911 m² · registry jurisdiction 13º Registro de Imóveis de São Pauloi · zoning ZM · buildability ratio 2x · height limit 28 m.

Leisure and facilities

• Spa
• Gym
• Barbecue
• Home cinema
• Gourmet area
• Playground
• Multi-sport court
• Squash court
• Games room
• Party room
• Heated pool and children’s pool
• Sauna
• 24-hour reception

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Jardim Paulista: the address

Rua José Maria Lisboai is a street with a residential character in the set of blocks between the Avenida Paulistai axis and Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônioi: vertical occupation, low commercial density and no reason for non-residents to pass through it. What makes 1221 unusual is what surrounds it. There are two parks within walking distance — Trianoni and Parque Prefeito Mário Covasi — and two underground lines at nearly the same distance, Estação Consolaçãoi and Estação Trianon-MASPi, a map coincidence few addresses in the neighbourhood repeat. Street life sits a few blocks away, on Rua Augustai and Rua Haddock Loboi, where the Sunday market sets up between the two, and Hotel Emilianoi marks the point where the neighbourhood becomes a showcase. In the other direction, the same walk leads to the vicinity of Parque Ibirapuerai. It’s an address from which everything is reachable on foot — and where none of it comes in through the window on its own.