Its building was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in the early 1940s, integrating the Pampulha Architectural Complex, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site since 2016.

Iate Tênis Clube, initially called "Iate Golfe Clube" (Yacht Golf Club), is one of the four buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer commissioned by Juscelino Kubitschek, then mayor of the capital of Minas Gerais, in the early 1940s, when the dam that formed Pampulha Lake was created.

[4] The club's outdoor areas have gardens that were designed by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.

[5] In 2016, the Architectural Ensemble of Pampulha was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Because it obstructed the view of the club from the Igreja da Pampulha (Church of Saint Francis of Assisi), compromising the visual relationship between the buildings of the architectural ensemble, its demolition with landscape reconstitution was a condition given by UNESCO for the declaration of World Heritage Site.