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The first residential building on Avenida Atlântica.
Landmark buildingEdifício Lellis-São Paulo is the building that made beachfront living on Copacabana a real thing. Work started in 1928 at the corner of Av. Atlântica and Rua Barão de Ipanema, and it opened in 1931 in neoclassical style — the quality of the detailing is what historians point to when they say this is the moment the avenue stopped being a strip of sand and became an address.
It's a twin-building complex: the first sits on the Av. Atlântica corner, the second one block back on Rua Domingos Ferreira. Apartments are mid-sized for the avenue, with neoclassical bones and the kind of full-frontal Atlantic view that has been lived in almost continuously for nearly a century.
Address: Av. Atlântica × Rua Barão de Ipanema, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Merchant Domingos Lellis built it as a residential investment on what was, in 1928, still an experimental waterfront. The design came from Paulista architect Cristiano Stockler das Neves — a leading neoclassicist of the 1920s São Paulo school who later served as mayor of São Paulo — and it was built across 1928 to 1931.
The complex first opened with eight floors; a ninth was added about a decade later, gaining a shared terrace at the top. It is the oldest residential building on Praia de Copacabana and a recurring reference point in the conversation about the avenue's heritage stock.
Source: Diário do Rio de Janeiro — história do Edifício Lellis
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