Sajous art déco where Paissandu's palms meet the bay.
About the building
Edifício Tabor e Loreto in brief.
Tabor e Loreto stands at the corner where Rua Paissandu — the street with the imperial palm rows — meets Praia do Flamengo. Henri-Pierre Sajous, the French architect of the neighboring Biarritz, delivered the twin blocks in 1947: twelve floors, one or two apartments per floor, and two facades that meet in a glazed cylindrical corner treated almost as sculpture.
Plates are large by any Rio standard, and inventory is scarce — with one or two units per floor across two blocks, only a handful of apartments exist at all. The building was heritage-listed by the city in 2000, and residents are known for refusing every film-production request that the address attracts.
AddressPraia do Flamengo 244 (Rua Paissandu 7), Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro — 22210-065
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 Largo do Machado (L1)8 min walk · up Paissandu
Santos Dumont Airport11 min by car
Galeão (GIG) International26 min by car
Belmonte (Praia do Flamengo)3 min walk
Parque do Flamengo1 min walk
On the map
Edifício Tabor e Loreto located.
Praia do Flamengo 244 (Rua Paissandu 7), Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro — 22210-065
Inaugurated in 1947, seven years after Sajous finished the Biarritz two blocks north. The pair bookend the architect's Rio residential work; he also built the Mesbla department store on Rua do Passeio and the Igreja da Santíssima Trindade on Rua Senador Vergueiro.
Bairros do Flamengo e de Botafogo, Enseada de Botafogo e o Morro do Pão de Açucar · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
The two blocks carry separate names — Tabor and Loreto — under one condominium. The bay-facing units look across the Aterro to Guanabara Bay; the Paissandu side faces the double row of imperial palms planted in the nineteenth century, running up toward Largo do Machado.
Ressaca na Praia do Flamengo · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Municipal heritage listing came in 2000, locking the facade. Television and film producers regularly ask to shoot in the building; the assembleia has a standing policy of saying no, which the Rio press has covered more than once.
Castelinho do Flamengo, antiga residência do comendador Joaquim da Silva Cardoso, c.1918 · Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Long-term rent
What a unit leases for.
Large heritage plates at Flamengo prices, not Ipanema prices — demand is steady from families upgrading on space rather than postcode.
Where named individuals declined attribution, we describe the owner profile.
No address-level identification of current residents.
Old-line Flamengo families
The Praia do Flamengo blocks held Rio's establishment before Copacabana took over; several Tabor e Loreto units remain with descendants of the original 1940s buyers.
Available now
No active units. For the moment.
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