Palace II was a tower block built at Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

On February 22, 1998, parts of it collapsed, due to engineering error, killing eight people.

[2] Before the building was demolished, researchers found empty piers and evidence of the usage of beach sand on the construction.

[3] All families had to move to hotels after the building's fall.

Although most of them have not yet received any kind of indemnity from the company responsible for building their homes, the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil announced, on April 9, 2008, the unblocking of 13 million reais (~6.5 million US dollars) earned through the auction of a property of Sérgio Naya, the civil engineer who had designed and built the building,[4] which will be given to the 130 families who lived there.