Jorge Machado Moreira's modernist block under Corcovado.
About the building
Edifício Antônio Ceppas in brief.
Edifício Antônio Ceppas is the most cited apartment building in Jardim Botânico's architecture literature. Jorge Machado Moreira — the architect of the UFRJ university city on Ilha do Fundão — designed it in 1946 for the Ceppas family; construction ran 1950 to 1952. Six floors stand on open pilotis, four apartments per floor, twenty-four units in total.
The facade is the reason photographers keep coming back: a concrete grid filled floor by floor with brises, cobogós and movable wooden trellis screens, so the building reads differently depending on how residents have set their sun protection that day. The ceramic panels and the grounds are by Roberto Burle Marx. The city listed the building as municipal heritage in September 2010.
AddressRua Benjamim Batista 180, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro — 22461-120
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.
Praia de Ipanema10 min by car
Metrô Botafogo (L1/L2)10 min by car
Santos Dumont Airport25 min by car
Plage Café (Parque Lage)10 min walk
Parque Lage10 min walk
Jardim Botânico (the garden)6 min by car
On the map
Edifício Antônio Ceppas located.
Rua Benjamim Batista 180, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro — 22461-120
Designed in 1946, in the same post-war wave as Lucio Costa's Parque Guinle blocks, and built between 1950 and 1952. Moreira adapted the Corbusian apartment-block vocabulary to Rio's climate — every opening on the sun-exposed faces got a layered closure of upper trellis, central wood-and-glass window and lower venetian panel.
Portão principal do Jardim Botânico, c.1816 · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
The ground level was left open on pilotis as shared leisure space, with Burle Marx handling the landscape and the decorative ceramic panels — one of the clearest surviving pairings of his early residential work with a modernist block in the Zona Sul.
Heritage listing came in September 2010; any intervention now goes through the municipal cultural-heritage council. The resident roll has carried recognizable carioca names for decades — the singer Katia B lived in the building for 27 years, and the comedian Marcelo Madureira owned here from 2008 to 2018.
Long-term rent
What a unit leases for.
Twenty-four units, almost never listed. When one reaches the rental market it goes to the waiting demand for Jardim Botânico's low-rise streets.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
Katia B
The singer-songwriter lived in the building for 27 years and has talked about it in the Rio press.
Marcelo Madureira
The Casseta & Planeta comedian owned a unit from 2008 to 2018; journalist Scarlet Moon also lived in the building.
Available now
No active units. For the moment.
We currently have no listings inside Edifício Antônio Ceppas. Inventory in this
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