Leblon's benchmark beachfront tower from the mid-1970s.
Landmark buildingJuan Les Pins stands at Avenida Delfim Moreira 458, on the corner of Rua Cupertino Durão, facing Praia do Leblon between lifeguard posts 11 and 12. It is one of the names brokers use as shorthand for the top of the Delfim Moreira strip, and a sculpture by the modernist artist Alfredo Ceschiatti — the sculptor behind much of Brasília's public statuary — is mounted on the façade.
Apartments are full-floor-scale, running to roughly 600 m² with up to five bedrooms, and several units have private pools. The building runs three elevators — social, beach and service — which tells you how the floor plans were thought through. Units trade rarely and usually privately.
Address: Av. Delfim Moreira 458, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
The tower was delivered around 1974 by Sérgio Dourado Empreendimentos Imobiliários, the developer whose name is attached to several of the most ambitious Zona Sul launches of that decade. It went up as Leblon's beachfront was completing its shift from houses to high-end apartment blocks.
The corner plot it occupies has its own footnote: the house of engineer and congressman Rubens Paiva — the family home portrayed in Walter Salles' film 'Ainda Estou Aqui' — stood on this stretch of Delfim Moreira before the era of the apartment towers.
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Two apartments per floor, between Posto 11 and 12.
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