Álvaro Vital Brazil's 1961 glass box on the Ipanema beachfront.
Landmark buildingThe building at Avenida Vieira Souto 350 — known simply as the Vieira Souto, or Condomínio Vieira Souto — is one of the avenue's architecturally significant mid-century buildings. It was designed by Álvaro Vital Brazil, the modernist behind São Paulo's landmark Edifício Esther, and conceived as a discreet glass box aligned to the height of its neighbors.
The address puts residents directly on the sand between Postos 9 and 10, on the quieter western half of the avenue. Units face the Atlantic across the beachfront pavement, with Rua Garcia d'Ávila — Ipanema's main luxury retail street — running inland one block away.
Address: Av. Vieira Souto 350, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
Vital Brazil designed the building in 1961, during the phase of his career when he had moved away from brise-soleil modernism toward a more minimal, Mies van der Rohe-influenced language of glass curtain walls. Architecture references group it with his Jardim Santa Clara building (1964) as an example of this later 'glass box' period.
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