Street level near Edifício Biarritz
Art Deco out front, a hidden Burle Marx garden behind.
Landmark buildingEdifício Biarritz stands at Praia do Flamengo 268 and is the most talked-about Art Deco apartment building in Rio. Started in 1940 and finished in 1945, the façade shows the style's rounded, double-curved balconies and gold-toned flower-shaped railings that French-influenced detailing brought to the tropics. Tucked behind the building is a private garden laid out by Roberto Burle Marx, hidden from the street.
Apartments run around 300 m² with three bedrooms, wide wraparound verandas, and views over the bay across the Aterro do Flamengo. Stock is limited, families tend to hold for generations, and the few resales usually come through specialist brokerages rather than the open listings.
Address: Praia do Flamengo 268, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro
Work began in 1940 on the then-young Praia do Flamengo. Architects Henri Paul Pierre Sajous and Auguste Rendu, both connected to the late French Artistic Mission presence in Brazil, ran the project, translating European Art Deco into a tropical setting through their choice of materials, the geometry of the balconies, and the orientation toward Guanabara Bay.
Finished in 1945, the Biarritz quickly became the reference point for the Flamengo beachfront, with its interior garden by Roberto Burle Marx mirroring his public work along the avenue. It has been residential without interruption ever since, and Rio's architectural-heritage writing lists it among the city's landmark Art Deco buildings.
Within 150 m of Edifício Biarritz, public listings from July 2026 showed 12 apartments for sale. Of those, 6 were on Praia do Flamengo itself. Asks went from R$ 470,000 for a 38 m² one-bedroom up to R$ 3,400,000 for a 400 m² 5-bedroom. Median: R$ 920,000 a unit and R$ 11,591 a square meter. The middle half sat between R$ 10,210 and R$ 12,392 per m².
The listing mix leaned to one-bedroom apartments: 5 of the 12, sized 38–106 m². A parking space came with 4 of the 12. Condo fee plus IPTU: median R$ 1,640 a month.
At R$ 11,591 per m², asks near Edifício Biarritz sit 3% above Secovi Rio's Flamengo average (R$ 11,295, December 2025). Largo do Machado station sits roughly 330 m from the door as the crow flies.
| Bedrooms | Listings | Size | Asking price | Median per m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 38–106 m² | R$ 470,000 – 1,580,000 | R$ 12,400 |
| 2 | 2 | 55–73 m² | R$ 670,000 – 740,000 | R$ 11,159 |
| 3 | 2 | 100–129 m² | R$ 1,100,000 – 1,530,000 | R$ 11,430 |
| 4 or more | 3 | 163–400 m² | R$ 1,700,000 – 3,400,000 | R$ 8,767 |
Asks, not sale prices: 12 public listings within 150 m of Edifício Biarritz, 1 July 2026. Secovi Flamengo data.
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