Mont Blanc

History

Mont Blanc is on Rua Lourenço de Almeida, one of the residential streets that run down from Vila Nova Conceiçãoi towards Parque Ibirapuerai, in the stretch where the neighbourhood traded houses for large-apartment towers. The city’s property surveys place the construction around 1990, but disagree between 1990 and 1991 — which is why this factsheet does not fix a year. The authorship of the project is not publicly documented and, for that reason, is not attributed here.

• Concept: one apartment per floor on a narrow-street plot — privacy solved by the site layout, not by the wall, and a floor plan that can occupy the whole slab.
• Curiosities: the transactions recorded at this address repeat, one after another, exactly the same private area — 387.61 m². It is the fingerprint of a single-slab building: there is no smaller typology to compare against, because there is no second unit on the floor.

Architecture and aesthetics

This building’s gesture is one of site layout, not of façade: one slab per family, no landing neighbour, on a narrow-street lot — the lift opens into an entrance hall that already belongs to the home. The floor plan is that of the large São Paulo apartment of that generation: a four-room living area facing the terrace, an independent dining room, a galley kitchen running to the pantry and breakfast room, and a large service area with full staff quarters. And the terrace does not look at the horizon — it looks at the treetops of the street, at the height where Vila Nova Conceiçãoi is still shade, not skyline. There is no publicly documented authorship for the project; this factsheet prefers to describe what the building does rather than attribute who designed it.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower, one apartment per floor.
• Floor areas: 387 m² of private area in the standard unit (387.61 m² in transaction records), with 4 bedrooms, 3 of them suites. The master suite has a walk-in closet and balcony.
• Parking: 5.
• Structural highlights: private entrance hall, four-room living area and terrace facing the treetops; independent dining room; kitchen integrated with the pantry and breakfast room; large service area, with full staff quarters.

Leisure and facilities

• Outdoor pool
• Gym
• Multi-sports court
• Party room
• Playground
• 24-hour concierge

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Vila Nova Conceição: the address

Vila Nova Conceiçãoi is the neighbourhood São Paulo treats as Parque Ibirapuerai‘s living room: short blocks, tree-lined streets, corner shops and a low scale the city almost no longer has at this income bracket. Rua Lourenço de Almeida runs through the heart of that layout, a few minutes from Praça Pereira Coutinhoi, Avenida Santo Amaroi and the border with Itaim Bibii — close to everything without being on the avenue of anything. It is one of the few addresses in the city where living well and walking to a park of national standing are the same sentence.