Edifício Chopin sits on Avenida Atlântica next door to the Copacabana Palace — the most cited modernist residential building on the Rio beachfront. Chopin and its sibling blocks — three connected buildings named after the composer's works — form a single condominium with the highest concentration of pre-war money, post-war industry, and contemporary carioca high society at any one address in the city.
Units run from 250 to 1,000 m² — among the largest residential plates in Rio. The frente blocks carry direct Atlantic frontage; the entire condominium is residential, predominantly two- and three-suite plans with the upper-floor coberturas trading as multi-million-dollar assets.
AddressAv. Atlântica 1782, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro — 22021-001
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 Copacabana0 min · crosses the avenue
Metrô Cardeal Arcoverde (L1)8 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport14 min by car
Galeão (GIG) International30 min by car
Copacabana Palace · Cipriani2 min walk
Forte de Copacabana16 min walk
On the map
Edifício Chopin located.
Av. Atlântica 1782, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro — 22021-001
Built in 1956. The modernist project was led by French architect Jacques Pilon, with the bulk of detail work attributed by historians to his German collaborator Franz Heep — who would later design São Paulo's Edifício Itália. Chopin was the first building in Copacabana with floor-to-ceiling glass.
Obras na praia de Copacabana · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Commissioned by Polish-Brazilian industrialist Henryk Spitzman Jordan, who lived in one of the 2,000 m² penthouses with his wife Josefina until his death in 1967. Chopin and its sibling blocks were named after the composer's signature works.
Obras na praia de Copacabana 2 · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Since inauguration the building has housed three generations of carioca old-money plus a rotating cast of artists, actors and industrialists. Common areas were last fully renovated in the 2010s; the marble-clad façade is unchanged.
Vista de Copacabana · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Long-term rent
What a unit leases for.
Chopin-block frente units lease in days. Fundos units in the sibling blocks sit longer in low season.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
Maitê Proença
The actress is among the most publicly identified Chopin residents in carioca press; she has spoken about the building in interviews.
Carioca old-money & artists
Three generations of the same families remain in the original units; the artist-and-socialite mix made Chopin the address in Rio society for sixty years.
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