The green-tile building that put height on Vieira Souto.
About the building
Edifício Itacurussá in brief.
Itacurussá sits at Av. Vieira Souto 620 with one of the most recognizable façades on the Ipanema beachfront — a continuous wall of emerald-green ceramic tile that has become a navigation landmark on the avenue. Roughly 30 apartments, every one with frontal or panoramic views of Praia de Ipanema.
Inventory is selective; the building has been a high-society address for five decades and most units remain with families that bought in during the 1970s and 1980s. When apartments do reach the market the ticket reflects both the ocean frontage and the address-recognition premium.
AddressAv. Vieira Souto 620, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro — 22420-002
In photos
Edifício Itacurussá up close.
The facade, the common areas and the setting, so you know the building before you ever walk in.
Construction began in 1966, with the building delivering in 1970 — one of the first buildings above ten floors on Avenida Vieira Souto, built immediately after municipal regulations were relaxed to allow tall beachfront construction in Ipanema.
Praia de Ipanema · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Through the 1980s the Itacurussá became one of the social gathering points of carioca high society — traditional families lived in upper-floor units and the lobby hosted meetings between national and international political figures of the era.
Praia de Ipanema, com vista do Morro Dois Irmãos e da Pedra da Gávea · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
The green-tile façade has been preserved through every common-area renovation cycle; structural and systems modernizations have happened progressively while the architectural language has stayed intact.
Ipanema vista do Arpoador · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Long-term rent
What a unit leases for.
Long-term focus given the 30-night minimum on STR. Tenant base is corporate relocations and HNW Brazilians.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
Traditional carioca families
Multiple original-owner families remain in the building — Itacurussá was an address-of-record for the city's old money through the 1980s and 1990s.
Political & diplomatic owners
The 1980s social-political circle around the building left a long ownership thread; consular and diplomatic owners remain among the resident mix.
Available now
No active units. For the moment.
We currently have no listings inside Edifício Itacurussá. 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.
We work Ipanema block by block. Most of what we close inside
buildings like this never reaches a portal — send us your brief and we'll come back
with what's actually available.
