An award-winning 1940s modernist apartment building with Burle Marx panels.
Landmark buildingThe Edifício Antônio Ceppas stands at Rua Benjamin Batista 180, on a quiet residential street between Rua Jardim Botânico and the foot of Corcovado. It is one of the reference works of carioca modern architecture: a mid-rise apartment building by Jorge Machado Moreira, the architect who later master-planned the UFRJ university city on Ilha do Fundão.
The building pairs a clean modernist slab with tile panels and landscaping by Roberto Burle Marx, and it photographs the way good 1940s Rio architecture should — rational structure, generous openings, art integrated into the entrance rather than applied to it. Apartments here trade rarely; the street is one of Jardim Botânico's most settled.
Address: Rua Benjamin Batista 180, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro
Moreira designed the building in 1946, in the same generation of work that produced the Ministry of Education building downtown. It was exhibited and awarded at the São Paulo Biennial's international architecture exhibition in 1961, and it remains a fixture of architecture-school field trips and photography surveys of Rio modernism, including Leonardo Finotti's documentation of the period.
Within 130 m of Edifício Antônio Ceppas, public listings from July 2026 showed 12 apartments for sale. Asks went from R$ 850,000 for a 65 m² one-bedroom up to R$ 3,700,000 for a 195 m² four-bedroom. Half asked less than R$ 1,525,000; per square meter the median was R$ 15,250. Most asks per m² fell from R$ 12,158 to R$ 16,613.
Three-bedroom apartments were the most common (9 of 12), from 75 to 140 m². Parking: 11 of the 12 included a space. Monthly condo fee and IPTU, median: R$ 2,685.
Edifício Antônio Ceppas's nearby median of R$ 15,250/m² is close to the R$ 15,111 Secovi Rio reports for Jardim Botânico (December 2025).
| Bedrooms | Listings | Size | Asking price | Median per m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 65 m² | R$ 850,000 | R$ 13,077 |
| 3 | 9 | 75–140 m² | R$ 900,000 – 2,350,000 | R$ 15,000 |
| 4 or more | 2 | 138–195 m² | R$ 2,200,000 – 3,700,000 | R$ 17,458 |
Asks, not sale prices: 12 public listings within 130 m of Edifício Antônio Ceppas, 1 July 2026. Secovi Jardim Botânico data.
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