A five-floor survivor on the Arpoador end of Vieira Souto.
Landmark buildingPalácio das Flores stands at Vieira Souto 86 — the first beachfront stretch coming off Arpoador, a few hundred metres from the rock where surfers wait for the sunrise. Built in 1961, it is one of the lowest buildings on the whole avenue: five floors, 25 apartments. On a street where everything else climbed, that low-rise scale is its own scarcity — nothing this height gets built on Vieira Souto again.
The unit mix is the widest on the avenue, from compact 45 m² apartments up to 490 m² plates and a single 1,040 m² penthouse. That spread is the interesting part: the smaller front units are a rare way into a Vieira Souto address, carrying the same sand-and-postcode the avenue's estate-sized apartments command.
Address: Av. Vieira Souto 86, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro — 22420-002
Delivered in 1961, in the first construction wave that turned the Arpoador end of Vieira Souto into a built avenue. Its five-floor height reflects the zoning of the day; later towers on the same street doubled and tripled it, which left Palácio das Flores as one of the few low-rise survivors with direct beach frontage.
It has stayed a single residential condominium ever since, the original 1961 structure kept through maintenance rather than rebuilt. Access control and monitoring systems were modernised in the 2010s.
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