Edifício Biarritz.
Burle Marx garden behind, Art Deco out front — on Guanabara Bay.
Flamengo · Rio de Janeiro
About the building
Edifício Biarritz in brief.
Edifício Biarritz sits on Praia do Flamengo 268 and is the most-cited Art Deco residential building in Rio. Begun 1940 and delivered 1945, the façade carries the signature rounded double-curved balconies and the golden flower-form railings that French-Mission detailing brought to the tropics. Behind the building is a secret garden designed by Roberto Burle Marx — a private interior amenity invisible from the avenue.
Apartments run roughly 300 m² with three bedrooms, generous wraparound verandas, and views of the bay across Aterro do Flamengo. Inventory is finite, ownership is multi-generational, and resales surface intermittently — typically through specialist brokerages rather than the open portals.
Address
Praia do Flamengo 268, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro — 22210-030
Distance to
What's around it.
Walk and drive times to the things that decide where you live in Rio — beach, metro, airports, neighborhood anchors.
Aterro do Flamengo · Burle Marx park
0 min · across avenue
Metrô Largo do Machado (L1)
8 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport
8 min by car
Galeão (GIG)
25 min by car
Pão de Açúcar cable car
10 min by car
Lasai · Botafogo gastronomic strip
6 min by car
On the map
Edifício Biarritz located.
Praia do Flamengo 268, Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro — 22210-030
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History
How it got here.
Construction began in 1940 on the then-young Praia do Flamengo. Architects Henri Paul Pierre Sajous and Auguste Rendu — both attached to the French Artistic Mission's late-stage Brazilian presence — led the project, adapting European Art Deco vocabulary to the tropical brief through material choices, balcony geometry and the orientation toward Guanabara Bay.
Delivered in 1945, the Biarritz immediately became the architectural reference for the Flamengo beachfront. The interior garden was laid out by Roberto Burle Marx — a private green amenity hidden behind the building that mirrors his public work along the avenue.
The Biarritz has been continuously residential since delivery; common areas and the façade have been preserved through successive renovation cycles. The building is recognized in Rio's architectural-heritage literature as one of the defining Art Deco landmarks of the city.
Recent transactions
What units have closed for.
Praia do Flamengo Art Deco closings — predominantly off-portal between specialist brokerages. ADV-verified or sourced from public registry filings.
Date
Floor / position
Size
Sale price (BRL)
USD
R$/m²
2026-01
08º (frente)
300 m²
R$ 10.8M
$2.12M
R$ 36,000
2025-07
05º (frente)
262 m²
R$ 7.2M
$1.41M
R$ 27,500
2025-02
10º (cobertura)
480 m²
R$ 18.5M
$3.63M
R$ 38,500
Long-term rent
What a unit leases for.
Long-term focus given the 30-night STR minimum. Tenant base is corporate relocations, diplomatic staff and HNW Brazilians drawn to the Art Deco-and-bay-view profile.
Monthly rent range
R$ 18K – R$ 42K
Long-term lease (12+ months)
Who's lived here
Notable residents.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile. No address-level identification of current residents.
Percival Farquhar
The American entrepreneur behind the Madeira-Mamoré railroad lived at the Biarritz — one of the most-cited historical residents.
Carioca cultural & diplomatic owners
Eight decades of multi-generational ownership has left a long thread of cultural, diplomatic and professional residents in original units.
Available now
No active units. For the moment.
We currently have no mandates inside Edifício Biarritz. Inventory in this building moves rarely and often off-portal. Tell us you're watching it — we'll come to you the moment a unit becomes available.
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