Latin America's first skyscraper, standing over Praça Mauá since 1929.
Landmark buildingEdifício A Noite is the 22-story art deco tower at Praça Mauá 7, where Avenida Rio Branco meets the port. At 102 meters it was, on opening, the tallest building in Latin America and was billed as the tallest reinforced-concrete building in the world — the structure that taught Rio to say 'arranha-céu'.
It now fronts the renewed Porto Maravilha zone: the Museu do Amanhã and Museu de Arte do Rio sit across the square, the VLT runs past the door, and the surrounding blocks have shifted from port offices to museums, food halls and converted warehouses.
Address: Praça Mauá 7, Centro, Rio de Janeiro
Built between 1927 and 1929 to a design by French architect Joseph Gire — also responsible for the Copacabana Palace — with Brazilian architect Elisiário Bahiana, the tower was named for the newspaper A Noite, headquartered there from opening day. From 1936 its 21st and 22nd floors housed Rádio Nacional, the station that dominated Brazilian broadcasting for two decades.
Federal offices occupied it for years before moving out, and the building has since been folded into the Centro revitalization push, with the city marking the start of its restoration as part of the port-zone renewal.
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