BALNEÁRIO CAMBORIÚ | Senna Tower | +550 M / +1,804 FT | 140 FLOORS

[mrnyc]

Jean Graciola points to new projects, including a new tower that will house the company's new headquarters, in Balneario Camboriu, Brazil.Photographer: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg

[Zerton]

Cool! Go Brazil!

[NYguy]

https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/real-estat...n-the-worlds-tallest-apartment-building/

[UrbanImpact]

I'm curious about the tune mass damper here as this thing looks like it would be a swayer.

[BuildThemTaller]

Is that a racetrack cantilevered underneath the swimming pool?!

[Crawford]

How do the economics for this thing work? Condos in BC are cheap. You can buy one for under 100k USD.

One of our best friends owns an entire (small) building right on the beach, and it's worth maybe $1 million USD. They rent out all the units. The guests are overwhelmingly local middle class people from Santa Catarina (the local state), which, while prosperous, is hardly a Dubai. They're visitors from local towns like Joinville.

[UrbanImpact]

Originally Posted by Crawford

How do the economics for this thing work? Condos in BC are cheap. You can buy one for under 100k USD.

One of our best friends owns an entire (small) building right on the beach, and it's worth maybe $1 million USD. They rent out all the units. The guests are overwhelmingly local middle class people from Santa Catarina (the local state), which, while prosperous, is hardly a Dubai. They're visitors from local towns like Joinville.

If you google condo prices in the taller newer towers they are +$1m. I was curious because I have family there.

[scalziand]

Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller

Is that a racetrack cantilevered underneath the swimming pool?!

A karting track, yes. Goes with the Ayrton Senna theme.

[Zapatan]

Is this really U/C like the diagrams say? I think it's over 1,700' now too.

[Sky88]

Here is a tower like this that could also be built in New York, near Central Park.

[Urbannizer]

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[ILUVSAT]

Originally Posted by Crawford

How do the economics for this thing work?

Something to keep an eye on...

The high cost and rapid development of the CRE market in Balneário Camboriú, where land is among the most expensive in South America, could potentially make it attractive for money laundering activities (similar to accusations in Panama City where questionable/nefarious developers were very active - mainly from Columbia and Venezuela).

I'm not saying it exists or is wide-spread. But, the conditions are right for it.

Regardless - this is a sweet-looking tower!!!

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by Crawford

How do the economics for this thing work? Condos in BC are cheap. You can buy one for under 100k USD.

One of our best friends owns an entire (small) building right on the beach, and it's worth maybe $1 million USD. They rent out all the units. The guests are overwhelmingly local middle class people from Santa Catarina (the local state), which, while prosperous, is hardly a Dubai. They're visitors from local towns like Joinville.

Balneário Camboriú has became the most expensive real estate in Brazil. Of course there are districts in São Paulo (Pinheiros, Jardins, Itaim Bibi) and Rio de Janeiro (Leblon, Ipanema, Gávea) more expensive than BC, but it's definitely not a middle-class town anymore. They attract wealth people of the entire South and Midwest Brazil, people who got money with the booming and massive Brazilian agribusiness industry.

I google and it seems the cheapest unit will sell for R$ 28 million (US$ 5 million) and the most expensive ones will reach R$ 200 million (US$ 36 million).

Originally Posted by ssh

$616 million...man cheap labor countries really have it easy.

Brazilian labour is not cheap. It's actually quite expensive compared with countries on the same GDP per capita bracket. We should consider that Brazilian Real is quite undervalued so exchange rates might be quite deceiving.

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by UrbanImpact

I was just in Brazil to see family a few months ago It's crazy that there are no supertalls or many tall skyscrapers in Brazil's largest cities despite them having an endless amount of highrises.

Sao Paulo for example:

https://www.westend61.de/en/photo/AAEF06453/panoramic-aerial-view-of-the-city-of-so-paulo-brazil

São Paulo is about to get a new tallest, with over 700 ft, surpassing the current one with 564 ft. Balneário Camboriú ambitions unlocked several projects all over the country and Brazil, the land of highrises, is experiencing a small skyscraper boom.

[Urbannizer]

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[NYguy]

https://valorinternational.globo.com/bus...s-construction-methods-to-the-test.ghtml

Brazil’s skyscraper race puts construction methods to the test
Developers are pushing building heights beyond 400 meters, requiring new engineering solutions, construction techniques


Por Ana Luiza Tieghi — Balneário Camboriú
24/08/2026

A new wave of buildings is redefining what qualifies as a skyscraper in Brazil. A tower more than 550 meters tall has been under construction for a year in Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina state, and will surpass the country’s tallest building to date by at least 256 meters; that building is also in the city.

Balneário Camboriú, a coastal resort city in southern Brazil known for its high-rise skyline and luxury real estate market, has several other projects competing for height. A 400-meter skyscraper is also under construction and is scheduled to launch in November, while another building of the same height is in an advanced planning stage. A fourth project, measuring 300 meters, has also been announced in the Santa Catarina city.

The sight of skyscrapers is striking. Architect and urban planner Sergio Lessa, a professor at Belas Artes university, explains that the “monumental” scale of these projects replicates the feeling of entering a Gothic cathedral. “You feel extremely small in the face of all that grandeur, and you end up transferring some of that perception to the city,” he said.

That is what happens when looking at Balneário Camboriú’s skyline to the point that the towers have become a tourist attraction in the city, residents say.

The foundation of Senna Tower, the more-than-550-meter building, required a new system because of the project’s scale and the characteristics of the site. Stéphane Domeneghini, the engineer overseeing the project for developer FG Empreendimentos, says that instead of a typical foundation requiring about 100 piles, the company developed a “picket fence” system after three years of research, using thinner but more numerous and deeper piles. A total of 800 were used. The foundation alone has required enough concrete and steel to build two 50-story buildings, and the construction has barely risen above sea level.

Developer Lotisa completed load tests for the foundation of the 400-meter building it plans to construct in Balneário Camboriú last month. Using a different system, the company says its foundation set a national strength record. The project is expected to cost R$1.1 billion, excluding the land, and is scheduled to launch in November. Its potential sales value is estimated at R$2 billion.

Another challenge for buildings of this size is withstanding wind, which becomes stronger as altitude increases. Tall buildings will sway, “but we have to control it,” Lyra said.

Both Senna Tower and Lotisa’s building will have mass-damper systems. The technology counteracts the building’s movement so that residents do not feel it. Both buildings are predominantly residential.

FG discloses Senna Tower’s height only vaguely—“more than 550 meters”—for a reason: the building is competing with Dubai’s Burj Binghatti for the title of the world’s tallest residential tower. Whenever one company discloses its building’s height, the other adds a few centimeters to its project. “We will not disclose the final height,” Domeneghini said during a Valor visit to the project’s model, which stands 14 meters tall. The current tallest residential building is New York’s Central Park Tower, at 472 meters.

The world’s tallest building remains the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, at 828 meters, but the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia is expected to surpass it by reaching 1 kilometer. Both are mixed-use developments.

[MAC123]

This may end up the tallest building this side of the planet

[Zapatan]

Originally Posted by MAC123

This may end up the tallest building this side of the planet

Oklahoma says hold my beer

[Urbannizer]

Originally Posted by Zapatan

Oklahoma says hold my beer

An empty can

[Zapatan]

^ Ha yea, pretty much.

I wonder what the height to width ratio on this one is, looks pretty skinny.