The first building ever raised on the Flamengo waterfront — a 1925 Parisian block by Joseph Gire.
Landmark buildingThe Edifício Praia do Flamengo, at number 116 on the corner of Rua Corrêa Dutra, was the first apartment building constructed on the Flamengo waterfront. Joseph Gire — the French architect of the Copacabana Palace and the Hotel Glória — designed it for Octávio Guinle in the manner of a Parisian apartment house, ten floors topped with Renaissance-style mansard roofs.
The apartments run around 233 m² with 4.2-meter ceilings, and the front rooms open through French doors onto views of Guanabara Bay, the Sugarloaf and the park. It remains one of the most recognizable silhouettes on the waterfront and has been municipally heritage-protected since 2008.
Address: Praia do Flamengo 116, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro
Designed in 1923 and inaugurated in 1925, the building was Octávio Guinle's bet that Rio's elite would trade private mansions for Parisian-style apartment living. He hired Gire, then the most fashionable architect in the city, and the result set the template for the grand waterfront blocks that followed over the next two decades.
The municipal heritage listing in 2008 cited both the building's importance to the neighborhood and Gire's broader legacy in Rio, which includes the Copacabana Palace and the A Noite building at Praça Mauá.
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