Edifício Chopin.
Modernist Copacabana, next door to the Palace.
Copacabana · Rio de Janeiro
About the building
Edifício Chopin in brief.
Edifício Chopin sits on Avenida Atlântica next door to the Copacabana Palace — the most cited modernist residential building on the Rio beachfront. Three connected blocks named after Chopin works (Chopin, Prelúdio, Ballada) 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.
Address
Av. 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 Copacabana
0 min · crosses the avenue
Metrô Cardeal Arcoverde (L1)
8 min walk
Santos Dumont Airport
14 min by car
Galeão (GIG) International
30 min by car
Copacabana Palace · Cipriani
2 min walk
Forte de Copacabana
16 min walk
On the map
Edifício Chopin located.
Av. Atlântica 1782, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro — 22021-001
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History
How it got here.
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.
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. The three buildings — Chopin, Prelúdio, Ballada — were named after the composer's signature works.
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.
Recent transactions
What units have closed for.
Recent closings via Rio brokerages and public registry filings. ADV-verified where the buyer or seller worked with us.
Date
Floor / position
Size
Sale price (BRL)
USD
R$/m²
2026-02
08º Chopin (frente)
320 m²
R$ 17.2M
$3.37M
R$ 53,800
2025-11
05º Prelúdio (fundos)
280 m²
R$ 11.4M
$2.24M
R$ 40,700
2025-07
11º Chopin (cobertura)
620 m²
R$ 38M
$7.45M
R$ 61,300
Long-term rent
What a unit leases for.
Chopin-block frente units lease in days. Prelúdio and Ballada fundos units sit longer in low season.
Monthly rent range
R$ 28K – R$ 75K
Long-term lease (12+ months)
Who's lived here
Notable residents.
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 literal address in Rio society for sixty years.
Available now
No active units. For the moment.
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