Edifício Mare Nostrum — Leme, Rio de Janeiro

About the building

Edifício Mare Nostrum sits on the Leme stretch of Avenida Atlântica — the first kilometre of the avenue, before Princesa Isabel, where the beach crowd thins out and the buildings face the same water for noticeably less per square metre than mid-Copacabana. Built in 1968, it carries some of the largest apartments on this stretch: roughly 330 to 360 m², four bedrooms, full ocean frontage.

It has stayed a single residential tower since delivery — two big apartments per floor, no flat or hotel conversion. For a buyer who wants an Avenida Atlântica address at family scale without the Copacabana-Palace-block premium, Leme's calmer end is the trade.

Address: Av. Atlântica 822, Leme, Rio de Janeiro — 22010-000

The history of Edifício Mare Nostrum

The building went up in 1968, during the verticalisation wave that rebuilt Leme's beachfront through the 1950s and 60s — the same years the Le Méridien tower (today the Hilton) rose a few hundred metres down the avenue. Those towers replaced the low seaside houses of early Leme with the wall of buildings that defines the seafront today.

Unlike central Copacabana, the Leme end of the Atlântica never converted to a hotel-and-flat mix, which is why its buildings still trade as family homes — apartments here tend to come to market once a generation, and several have never changed hands since delivery.