Igara Building Alto Leblon, Rio de Janeiro Apartments, Brasil Real Estate, Architecture Images
Igara Building, Alto Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
26 August 2021
Design: Cité Arquitetura
Location: Alto Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
New Cité Arquitetura Project Is A Multifamiliar Residential in Leblon, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Igara Building, in Alto Leblon, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, 2021 – Located on the corner of Igarapava and Sambaíba streets, in the lower part of Alto Leblon, in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the Edifício Igara is an architectural project signed by Cité Arquitetura, led by the architects and partners Fernando Costa and Celso Rayol, with landscaping deisgn signed by Embyá and interiors project by Manga Rosa Arquitetura.?
The name Igara is inspired on the streets that surround the building, consolidating a direct relationship with the place’s vocation. The project?s conception used the etymology of the word ‘Igarapava’, a Tupi term meaning “Port of Canoes”, and the meaning of “Sambaíba”, the name given to a bushy shrub native to the Brazilian cerrado biome.

Cité’s project drew from these meanings of place to recreate the idea of the tree’s strength. Creating an image of a root that seeks the soil and a treetop that seeks the sky, the foundation is rooted and remains intact connected to the earth, like a safe port of arrival, and, in a sort of ascension, the building seeks the atmosphere.
Th...