Architecture sights in Buenos Aires
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Galerías Pacífico
Covering an entire city block, this beautiful French-style shopping center dates from 1889 and boasts vaulted ceilings with paintings done in 1954 by muralists Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Manuel Colmeiro, Lino Spilimbergo and Demetrio Urruchúa. All were adherents of the nuevo realismo (new realism) school of Argentine art. For many years the building was semiabandoned, but a joint Argentine-Mexican team repaired and restored the murals in 1992.
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El Zanjón de Granados
One of the more unique places in Buenos Aires is this amazing architectural site. Below the remains of a mansion, a series of old tunnels, sewers and water wells going back to 1730 were discovered. They have been meticulously reconstructed brick by brick, and very attractively lit, and this ‘museum’ offers a fascinating glimpse into the city’s architectural past. Choose between hour-long tours during the week or half-hour tours on Sundays. It’s best to call and reserve, especially if you need English-speaking guides.
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Casa de la Cultura
Before the internet, apparently, there was glamour in the newsroom. Step through the huge cast-iron doors of the Casa de la Cultura (Office of Culture) into a vestige of the golden age of newspaper journalism. The lobby’s dark-wood kiosks and a display of old-fashioned printing equipment hark back to the days when the building was the headquarters of the daily La Prensa newspaper.
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El Molino
This broke-down beauty, reminiscent of Paris’ Moulin Rouge, was once an elegant cafe where politicians socialized between meetings at Palacio del Congreso. Sadly, the striking art-nouveau corner building is now covered in cobwebs after closing in 1996. Conservation teams struggle to raise funds to restore El Molino (the Windmill), still considered an architectural landmark.
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Iglesia Dinamarquesa
One block southwest of the seriously ugly Facultad de Ingeniería of the Universidad de Buenos Aires is a different sort of architectural oddity: the brick Iglesia Dinamarquesa, a neo-Gothic Lutheran church dating from 1930 and designed using blueprints from Danish architects Rönnow and Bisgaard.
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Facultad de Ingeniería
Notable buildings in Recoleta are the beautiful French-styled Palais de Glace and the decrepit neo-Gothic Facultad de Ingeniería, which was designed by Uruguayan architect Arturo Prins and never quite completed.
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Standard Bank
The Microcentro boasts some pretty impressive buildings. Near Plaza de Mayo is the Spanish Renaissance Standard Bank building, often sprayed with graffiti and the locus of noisy activities.
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Edificio Menéndez-Behety
The Microcentro boasts some pretty impressive buildings. Near the Plaza de Mayo is the Edificio Menéndez-Behety – once headquarters of a Patagonian wool empire.
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