Herrera On the avenue, in barracks, lies the complex of buildings that are characterized by multi-colored facade and that gives the neighborhood a certain uniqueness. The artist Perez Celis has his studio there and is mainly occupied by offices.
A note of Clarín (06/25/2007) synthesizes a real estate development, unlike other neighborhoods, recycling buildings instead of destroying old and build new, as in other neighborhoods.
"Barracks is attractive because you can still get land or abandoned factories at prices much lower in the rest of the City " said Gustavo Fernandez, Edelven developer, which in 1998 opted for He transforms the building of the General Company of phosphorus in California to 2000 in the Central Park office complex. The front of this building was painted by Perez Celis, who has his studio there.
"They 50,000 square meters of offices, 80% of which are leased," says Fernandez. In 2006 we incorporated other building, other 5,000 meters on the street Herrera, and now 3,000 meters more " . The signing of Levi's jeans just rented a local 500 meters in Central Park (California and Herrera), to give an outlet. "We are working to attract more local brands and make this area a Barracks Polo Outlets anticipates Fernández.
The recycling of old factories seems to be a resource that capitalizes on the building structure was formidable than the industrial effort of a city and a developing country, but it was only in the way ... ... a systematic process truncated by personal interests and the awkwardness of certain leaders.
capital Buenos Aires is South America where they have come together, from the conquest and demographic fluctuations, different currents migratory and therefore has certain buildings that evoke the places of origin to their builders imagined, either by a melancholy reminiscence overseas, a mere symbolism or political allegiance.
Although migration is currently occurring on a larger scale, it is clear that the type of construction or replica style reminiscent to the place of origin is little reproduced anywhere in the world, except that time in ethnic neighborhoods targeted the Far East of the big western cities, where it is more noticeable (eg Chinese, or Korean neighborhoods in Buenos Aires or Islamist-rooted neighborhoods in London.) Of course that in comparison with the beginning of the century buildings, the architectural features low output current drawn by the current migratory flows obey different contexts, when the concepts of state and nation were in full training at the beginning of the twentieth century (and a little back too) and posed to reveal the emergence of certain trends or political-social.
In Diagonal Roque Sáenz Peña North (between Bartolomé Mitre and Maipú), located in a small triangular block is called the building which now houses the Bank Comafi. The function of the building remained the same since its inception, related to the ideal (of progress within the flourishing agro-export model early century) that led to the construction of the Diagonal and financial institutions and most symmetrical forms the harbor.
According to the Web http://www.arquitectura.com/historia/protag/gianotti/gianotti.asp
the building was built by Francisco Gianotti, Italian of course, is the beginning of 1900 and initially was the Company Navigation ltaly America, later becoming the Banco di Napoli, no doubt the long memories who walked through downtown to remember.
According to this same page, the architectural style on the outside is decorated with Venetian Gothic, reminiscent of Venice's Ducal Palace , which, by comparison, can be seen with the naked eye on the arches and columns.
} One of the most significant details is the magnificent sculpture of the Wolf suckling Romulus and Remus dominates the corner of Bartolomé Mitre and Maipú, best perceived by those who come by Mitre that Maipú, which not only seems to evoke the grandeur of Rome, but also one of the most potent migratory flows that built the country demographically.
} While the legend of Romulus and Remus is the most widely used worldwide, it is worth reviewing a piece of it from one of the most memorable prose writers of Rome, both for his poetry as its theme, the book Fasti of Ovid is indispensable source for researchers, mythographers and curious life of Rome and the early empire, as Ovid lived during the reign of Augustus, shortly after the death of Caesar, when the city and began their areas of influence (while) not only away from the republican era, but also to expand through weapons and refinement even more overwhelming civilization. Ovid review
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When the reason for the feast day of the Luperci (15 February), an ancient festival "Pagan" who has a derivation of the name "Lupercal" as a place where "... the vestal Silvia gave birth to a blue fruit, when his paternal uncle ran the kingdom. This small ordered into the river and drown. What are you doing that? One of them is Romulus. The servants fulfill the order reluctantly deplorable, but the twins are crying to the place tidy. The Albula, which became the Tiber because Tiberino had dived into the waves, was casually grown winter waters. Here, where now lies the forums and your valley, Circus Maximus, the boats could be seen giving laps. When they got there (they could not go further), said one or another of them: "But how alike they are! How beautiful you both! However, this is the one most effective of the two. If the breed is seen on the face, and the appearance does not deceive, I suspect you do not know what god is ... Now, if some god was the author of your existence, I would help in a very critical time. Also your mother I would help, if it were needed, that in a single day has been a mother and left no children.
Beings born at a time and that time you're gonna die, go to the water to a time! ". He finished and took them off the chest. The two gave a wail at once, as if they were aware. The servants returned home with wet cheeks. The chest held them, as had been, on the surface of the water. Oh, what a great destination levaba the small tablet! The casket, driven from dark forests, stopped at the mud with a decrease in water flow. There was a tree, of which vestiges remain, and the fig tree that is now called "Rumina" was the fig tree of Romulus. A wolf has just given birth to twins was exposed, Oh great!: Who can believe that the animal did not harm children? No harm is low, they even make a profit: A wolf who fed the hands relatives were able to try to lose! He stopped, and the tail caressed the tender young, and with his tongue licking the figure of the two bodies. Could be known they were sons of Mars were not afraid. They pull the udder and are fed using milk that was not promised. She named the place, and where, in turn, the Luperci . Great is the prize that has the mother for the milk they gave ... " (Ovid, Fasti, comprising between 3 and 8 dc Edicomunicación sa, Spain, 1999)
here as E Ovid tells of the origin myth of the greatness and militancy that support office of Rome. As highlighted in this small sample, his poetry, the drama of the sentencing decision of the twins, and that story so often repeated in the old (despite the fragmented stories that come to us at present) from the basket to drift by the river and saved somehow, in this case the Wolf , which in Ovid's tale is not only tragic, but also poignant.
Ovid
For the same (although many well-known story) you can find in other places in Fasti, Romulus and Remus are the product of the outrage of the god Mars on the vestal Silvia, that Romulus killed himself this tyrant guy that ordered the murders and become a warrior for the myth ... played after two thousand years not only in sculptures, architectural features or names, but also in manners and customs of the societies, and that we should not forget that Rome, among other things is shown that was the beginning of the modern Western world.
Although scattered throughout the city, there are outstanding examples of Art Deco aesthetics in Buenos Aires in the 30's of the twentieth century that are interesting to discover. Just enough to raise a little look and distinguish between buildings some characteristics. These can be (among many): "staggered profiles in skyscrapers ... stepless telescopic and frets, obsessive recurrence formal squared, rough textured plaster ... magnificent ornamental water features ... ..." [1 ]
Ex newspaper Critica
Since 1928 Avenue address in May 1333, the facade Ex Review Journal "... is made from three panels separated by slender pilasters, starting from the base, cover the whole height of the building. The central sector is dominated by a massive arch that starts on the first floor, for the Board-... This emphasis area concentrates ornamental joint displayed in the top frame and richly decorated step, the pair flanked by four major sculptures in emerging from mineral or vegetable stylized.
Details of the symbolic figures
is undoubtedly emphasize the symbolic nature of such a text- the time we speak of "the rule of mind over matter" - as well as its strong attachment to the Deco aesthetic, which also faceted response crest that crowns the front 2]
also be adding another feature, balconies shaped like a ship's bow.
Teatro Metropolitan
Like most emblematic city's theaters (Opera, Gran Rex, Broadway, Normandie still active) The Metropolitan (Av. Corrientes 1343, built between 1936 / 1937) is part of the cultural buildings aesthetic Art Deco, thus reflecting the nascent film industry as the 30 'embodied in the aesthetic renewing the technological advancement of the fun, plus the strength and innovation of the industry. The influences in these buildings are Americans, especially influenced by the Radio City Music Hall in New York (1933).
Vale technical description of these remarkable architectural examples intended to last over time, as the great monuments Mesoamerican in which the architects of the movement have inspired the early twentieth century: "The facade is completely repealed in imitation stone, shows a symmetrical composition whose central tower rises with the characteristic scaling Deco, together with treatment strong vertical lines give the whole effect of greater height than objectively has [3]
While in Buenos Aires there is a neighborhood or district agglomeration Art Deco buildings, such as Miami, the features of style are scattered in most neighborhoods of the city and can be observed with great diversity, both in small details (reminiscent in doors, facades, balconies) as a whole (building).
In Buenos Aires there are many more exponents to be admired. The best known are the Citibank headquarters, the City Hotel, Hospital Ramon Sarda, Church Evangelical Methodist Mouth, Kavanagh building in Retirement among many.
Cultural Heritage's excellent guide to Buenos Aires, Art Deco Architecture N º 8, 2007 mentions briefly the characteristics movement from the artistic point of view: "... In the European case, the origins of Art Deco recognize highly diverse connections and influences, from Viennese Secession, German Expressionism and Neo Dutch, to the Ballets Russes Diaghilev, to all which owes its eclectic repertoire formal Mars contributed by the greatest archaeological discoveries of the era of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922, would produce a major impact, "with the consequent reassessment of ancient Egyptian culture Assyrian-Chaldean.
In turn, the Art Deco is characterized U.S. by an explicit gesture of aesthetic redemption of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures ... whose development can be distinguished in the stepped profile of New York skyscrapers of the 1930 [4]
This synthesis indicates that fuller explanation of the movement must be considered within the context that one and only responds to a critical stage of the twentieth century, between the two world wars.
This publication is available at low cost in House of Culture Government City of Buenos Aires (bibliographic mainstay of this post) stands and says (at least in the text) an essential cultural heritage of the city which over time turns out to be part of the identity of the city along with other styles like the Neo-Classical or neo-colonialism. It is hoped that within the context of current post-modern building demolition and causing the voracious and often aggressive real estate market, the authorities take the necessary precautions so that this invaluable heritage is not damaged or disappear.
Note regarding this blog with photos of the Opera Theatre:
For some it may be a place of faith, for others a historic site or even the only site that remained of the former black slaves in the country. The Black Chapel is in Chascomús just over 100 kilometers of Buenos Aires and is an alternative cultural tour in one of the most popular of the mini-tourism.
today in every major city has a Chinatown. In Buenos Aires there is a peculiarity, since immigrants are scattered, especially visible in convenience stores and some restaurants Chinese , but the most colorful and most characteristic concentration of this population can be seen in three blocks in the neighborhood of Belgrano.
begins, arguably at the intersection of Arribeños Oath in the Belgrano neighborhood, just meters from the train station. These are just three blocks with some shops on side streets as little more than street Mendoza China's influence is diluted and the neighborhood of Belgrano returned to their peaceful property in Buenos Aires.
interesting thing is that during the ride can be certain curiosities. A Chinese version of the book Jaws, the same film made famous by Steven Spielberg.
kittens "abundance" that move the little arm is a classic.
The banks are also associated with wealth. The Chinese, apparently, so it looks and how little is known, sublime fortune. The local casinos attest to this too.
street sweets. It is peculiar that in a business that seems a certain category of clothing, have opened in the side glass to facilitate the sale of these products on the street. The Buenos Aires and visitors enjoy and taste.
squid and fish eviscerated and dissected. Sold on the street. Not many posts, but any offer is always a demand.
The ancient Chinese medicine and a map of the points that heal the pain. To some it works. Acupuncture is recommended by some Western-trained clinicians, especially for herniated disc.
If you enlarge the photo can be seen in detail the icons that indicate which body part is touched properly affects a sector of the soles of the feet. These premises are full of Chinese medicine and oriental locals alike.
Many Chinese cuisine restaurants.
The Chinese appear to be versatile, in a short residence time adjusting the locals with their own names .
still living outside the residence, some do not change eating habits, such as chicken or chicken claws are eaten in China and some countries in the Far East. This custom seems to be exploited commercially by Argentina, which is said to be one of the leading exporters of this court, that our country is not consumed. The main destination is, of course, China.
This sector of the barrio of Belgrano is a curious and pleasant ride to Buenos Aires medium. Like all Chinatown, and even as seen in the stereotypes seen in American films set in San Francisco or New York, you may know and live the customs of a country that was always mysterious to Western culture, where you can eat in restaurants and street food tasting china property, including the Chinese-made sushi, which is more "industrial" Japanese and noodle chow fan or you can eat standing in the street. can also smell different aromas and hear the foreign languages \u200b\u200bto pass who knows where in China.
can walk and admire the colorful stained glass and business. Can you bargain shopping for clothes, trinkets and decorations. While many locals are accustomed to the presence of China, accepted it with pleasure, in other Chinatown visitors can see some faces of curiosity, but never indifference to these new urban situations.
This cultural fusion makes the Chinese New Year celebrations are crowded, not the number of residents, but by the number of locals who attend the celebration. It should be noted that for this date is very early to attend to appreciate the power of the Chinese Dragon.
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