Establishment and Foundation

Founded in 1951 in Rio de Janeiro city, Carvalho Hosken joined the competitive national market of construction, at the time focused on the demands of a country that was preparing itself to grow.

Carvalho Hosken participated actively in the construction of Brazil´s new capital that was being transferred from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, and built more than 107 million square feet throughout Brazil´s territory.

Always under the command of engineer Carlos Fernando de Carvalho, in 1969 the company became an S.A.

Its innovative accomplishments along the first two decades of existence soon made Carvalho Hosken one of the most prestigious companies in Brazil.
Carlos Fernando de Carvalho, with his vision of the future, when noticed that Rio de Janeiro was growing towards Barra da Tijuca, acquired about 107 million square feet in that region. From that stage, he began to develop in Barra da Tijuca bold residential and business developments in large scale, using large turfs of land, developing them in new patterns of occupation. In this performance, the company bases itself on the principles of joining the work of urban development with environmental action, which also results in social action. The land is primarily restored in its full environmental conditions, in the rescue of the local fauna and flora and afterwards in the proposal of a conscious urbanization where man and nature merge into one organism.

Focused on Urban Development. Thinking about the environment.

In the last 30 years, Carvalho Hosken has always focused on sustainable urban development, so much when referring to the urbanization of large lands in Rio de Janeiro – some with more than 10 million square feet – as in the production of buildings and urban infrastructure reaching more than 107 million square feet constructed throughout Brazil.
Among them, we can highlight innovative developments until today, like Atlântico Sul, Itanhangá Hills, Charles De Gaulle Business Center and more recently, in association with some of the largest construction companies of the country, Golden Green, Barra Shopping Business Center, Cosmopolitan Work Style and CEO – Corporative Executive Offices, the biggest Business Center in the city. The urban changes that Carvalho Hosken has made to Barra da Tijuca, through the creation of neighborhood-condos like Rio2, the Peninsula and more recently the City Garden, or through the kilometers of re-urbanized in its areas at the future Metropolitan Center and Turf F, qualify it as one of the strongest driving forces to the development of this region, also operating as inducer of Barra´s endogenous growth.
Carvalho Hosken, with this developmental vision, always participates along with the Public Power in large urban infrastructure projects, like the construction of Mayor Pedro Ernesto Bridge and the re-urbanization of Via Parque and Abelardo Bueno avenues, where recently was constructed, in partnership with RJZ Cyrela, the Barra Fountains – a monument to life, donating to the city a 52,49 ft tall sculpture honoring the Pan American games. In addition to these urban interventions, other actions should also be highlighted, like the development of the Professor Mello Barreto Environmental Park and the survey on the avifauna from Maciço da Pedra Branca (Pedra Branca Massif), one of the largest urban forests in the world.

Working on the Future. Helping to Build the City.

After constructing over 107 million square feet through the whole city and creating the largest neighborhoods from Barra da Tijuca, Carvalho Hosken is preparing itself to future projects.
At hand, the development of the Metropolitan Center, Turf F, Pure Island and Outeiro. At the Metropolitan Center, besides the Barra Fountains, an enormous shopping mall will be built with over 516 thousand square feet of GLA. In this area will also be built new multifamily developments and office buildings suggesting a new concept of quality of life, where work, living and fun will stand side by side.
At Turf F, neighbor to Barra´s Peninsula and to an ecological sanctuary with over thousands of species of plants and birds, Carvalho Hosken begins to give shape to what will be one of the most ecological neighborhoods in the city.
At last, with the possibility of Rio de Janeiro hosting the 2016 Olympic Games, the company offers its Outeiro areas to the construction of the Olympic Village and the Pure Island to house the Olympic Village.