Itatiaia Building | |
Native Name: | Edifício Itatiaia |
Address: | Rua Irmã Serafina, 919 - Centro, Campinas - SP- CEP 13015-201 |
Location Country: | Brazil |
Coordinates: | -22.9038°N -47.0573°W |
Groundbreaking Date: | 1953 |
Completion Date: | 1957 |
Destruction Date: | --> |
Architect: | Oscar Niemeyer |
Floor Area: | 11153.42m2 |
Floor Count: | 15 |
Map Type: | Brazil |
Architectural Style: | Modernist |
Height: | 49m (161feet) |
Elevator Count: | 3 |
Unit Count: | --> |
Map Dot Label: | Edifício Itatiaia |
Location City: | Campinas, São Paulo |
Grounds Area: | 1569.8m2 |
Engineer: | Werner Müller |
The Itatiaia Building (Portuguese: Edifício Itatiaia) is an apartment building in the Centro district of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It was designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) in 1953 and completed in 1957. It was the only residential tower in Campinas until the early 1960s, and was the first Modernist building in the city.
It occupies 1569.8m2 on a trapezoid-shaped plot of land on Irmã Serafina Avenue. It is often compared to another of building of the period, the Copan Building (Edifício Copan) in São Paulo.