The first building on the Flamengo waterfront, 1925.
About the building
Edifício Praia do Flamengo in brief.
Edifício Praia do Flamengo — known to the neighborhood as Edifício Guinle — was the first apartment building on the Flamengo waterfront, delivered in 1925 at the corner of Rua Corrêa Dutra. Joseph Gire, the French architect behind the Copacabana Palace and the Hotel Glória, designed it for businessman Octávio Guinle, who wanted a Parisian building on the bay: Louis XVI interiors, a Renaissance mansard roof, ten floors.
The floor plates run around 233 m² with 4.20 m ceilings. Living and dining rooms face Guanabara Bay through full-height glass doors — a 1925 specification that no later Flamengo building repeated at this scale. The facade has been listed by the Instituto Rio Patrimônio da Humanidade since 2008. Total unit count, units per floor and elevator count are not in our verified record yet.
AddressPraia do Flamengo 116 (esq. Rua Corrêa Dutra), 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.
Praia do Flamengo (Aterro)1 min · across the avenue
Metrô Catete (L1)6 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport10 min by car
Galeão (GIG) International25 min by car
Majórica (Rua Senador Vergueiro)10 min walk
Parque do Flamengo1 min walk
On the map
Edifício Praia do Flamengo located.
Praia do Flamengo 116 (esq. Rua Corrêa Dutra), Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro — 22210-030
Built in 1925 on what was then an open shoreline — the Aterro do Flamengo landfill and park came four decades later. Octávio Guinle, of the family behind the Copacabana Palace and Parque Guinle in Laranjeiras, commissioned Joseph Gire to bring the Paris apartment-house format to Rio. Construtora Pederneiras executed the build.
Castelinho do Flamengo, antiga residência do comendador Joaquim da Silva Cardoso, c.1918 · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
During a recent facade restoration, workers uncovered a marble plaque carrying the names of Gire and Construtora Pederneiras — it had spent decades under layers of mortar and paint. The find made the Rio press and confirmed the authorship documented in the city archives.
Bairros do Flamengo e de Botafogo, Enseada de Botafogo e o Morro do Pão de Açucar · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
A century on, the building remains residential and largely original: same plates, same ceiling heights, same mansard profile. It anchors the short list of pre-war buildings still standing on the Flamengo waterfront, alongside the Biarritz and the Seabra blocks further down the avenue.
Ressaca na Praia do Flamengo · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Long-term rent
What a unit leases for.
Bay-front pre-war plates with 4 m ceilings lease quickly; tenants are typically professionals working in Centro and consular staff.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
Guinle-era commission
Octávio Guinle commissioned the building and the family name stuck — the neighborhood still calls it Edifício Guinle a century later.
Long-tenure carioca families
Units turn over slowly; several apartments have stayed with the same families for generations, a common pattern in the listed pre-war Flamengo stock.
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