Hilton Buenos Aires [SEP] architect
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Hilton Buenos Aires


The Hilton Buenos Aires is a five star hotel in the Argentine capital. The establishment is located in the city's Puerto Madero section. The Hilton Buenos Aires was designed by Mario Roberto Álvarez, constructed by local developer Benito Roggio at a cost of around US$80 million, and inaugurated in January 2000. The seven-story hotel includes 417 rooms. The hotel collaborated with U.S. toymaker Mattel in 2007 to redesign a number of its rooms thematically, resulting in a 'Barbie' and a 'Hot Wheels' room. Recent
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125th IOC Session


The 125th IOC Session took place at the Buenos Aires Hilton in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 7 September to 10 September 2013. The International Olympic Committee elected Tokyo as the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games on 7 September. Wrestling was restored to the Olympic program for 2020 and 2024, and Thomas Bach was elected to an eight-year term as IOC President. The IOC received two bids from cities to host the 125th Session: Buenos Aires and Kuala Lumpur made bids. The Argentine capital Buenos Aires was elected
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Obelisco de Buenos Aires


The Obelisco de Buenos Aires (Obelisk of Buenos Aires) is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. Located in the Plaza de la República in the intersection of avenues Corrientes and 9 de Julio, it was erected in 1936 to commemorate the quadricentennial of the first foundation of the city. Construction began on March 20, 1936, and it was finished on May 23 of the same year. It was designed by architect Alberto Prebisch (one of the main architects of the Argentine modernism who also designed the Teatro Gran
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Patricio Pouchulu


Patricio Pouchulu (born April 13, 1965 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a contemporary organic architect. Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated as an Architect at Universidad de Buenos Aires before moving to London to study with Peter Cook at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he got a M.Arch. He was awarded by the British Council and Fondo Nacional de las Artes. He taught at the University of Buenos Aires (1989–1996), Fachhochschule-Munich, Germany (1999–2004). He is invited as
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Palace and Patriarchal Cathedral of Buenos Aires (Lisbon)


Paço, called "Buenos Aires", or in the Terreiro do Paço itself. The initial studies were commissioned by an Italian architect named Filippo Juvarra, who arrived in Lisbon in January 1719 and worked on the schemes until July of that year. During his stay he also made schemes for the creation of a monumental lighthouse on the Tejo river mouth. However, the choice of location by the architect (it would be in "Buenos Aires") and the size and architectural style of the building envisioned, inspired by Saint
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Gran Hotel (Costa Rica)


of the Choice International and Reals Hotels & Resorts chain resulting in renaming the hotel. The hotel name was changed to The Gran Hotel Costa Rica Ascend Collection and announced on December 14 through a press release. Effective Sep 10 2018 it will be part of the Hilton Curio Collection. http://curiocollection3.hilton.com/en/hotels/costa-rica/gran-hotel-costa-rica-curio-collection-by-hilton-SJOCUQQ/index.html Guest Rooms The Gran Hotel consists of five room packages. These include: Standard Room, Superior Room, Deluxe Room, Master Suite and J.F.K. (John F. Kennedy) Presidential Suite. Each room is accommodated with air conditioner except the Standard Rooms
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Our Lady of Mercy Church (Buenos Aires)


Our Lady of Mercy Church of Buenos Aires () is an Argentine Catholic temple. It is located on 207, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Nicolas. The Iglesia de la Merced was originally designed by Italian architects Giovanni Andrea Bianchi and Giovanni Battista Primoli, who started the construction works around 1721. The current facade is the work of the architect Mario Buschiazzo, who began the works of modification in 1893, being completed in 1900. Like other religious temples of the time, the Church of La Merced also had a
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Francisco Martín Cordovés


Francisco Martín Cordovés (1585–1676) was a Spanish architect. He served in Buenos Aires during the Viceroyalty of Peru. Martín Cordovés was born 1584 in Toledo, Spain. Had arrived at the port of Buenos Aires in the late of 16th century. In 1612, he was married to Francisca Rodriguez Varillas. descendant of Gonzalo Rodríguez, and Fernando Joanes de Monroy. Cordovés exercised the profession of architect, master of stonemason, and appraiser in the Fort of Buenos Aires. Francisco Martín Cordovés lived more than 90 years something atypical for
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Claudio Vekstein


Claudio Vekstein (born February 5, 1965 in Buenos Aires, Argentina ) is an architect from Argentina and has been running his own architecture practice, teaching and researching the relationship between the architecture discipline, the public work and the Public Interest. Born in 1965 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he studied at the School of Architecture and Urbanism Buenos Aires University, later he became disciple of South American master architect Amancio Williams, and completed Master Studies at the Frankfurt Art Academy Städelschule in Germany under Profs. Enric Miralles and Peter Cook
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Mario Roberto Álvarez


(Mar del Plata). An economic recovery in the early 1990s resulted in a rush of landmark designs for MRA, including the Rosario Stock Exchange's new building, the Le Parc tower (completed in 1996, the tallest in Argentina until 2003), the Hilton Buenos Aires (1999) and Microsoft's Latin American headquarters (2000), numerous luxury high-rises in the Recoleta and Palermo sections of Buenos Aires, and others. Turning 90 in 2003, Álvarez's design for the redevelopment of the Northern District of
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Bids for the 2020 Summer Olympics


bids in the past. It is the first time in 20 years that no city in the Americas bid to host the Summer Olympic Games. Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics. Baku and Doha bid for the 2016 Games but failed to become candidate cities, while Tokyo and Madrid also bid for the 2016 Games and became candidate cities. The IOC voted to select the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics on 7 September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session at the Buenos Aires Hilton in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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2020 Summer Olympics


bid from Rome was withdrawn. The IOC voted to select the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics on 7 September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session at the Buenos Aires Hilton in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An exhaustive ballot system was used. No city won over 50% of the votes in the first round, and Madrid and Istanbul were tied for second place. A run-off vote between these two cities was held to determine which would be eliminated. In the final vote, a head-to-head contest
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Richard Adams (architect)


Richard Adams (1791–1835) was a Scottish painter and architect, who built the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist of Buenos Aires. He was born in Scotland, and arrived in Buenos Aires in 1825, along with a group of Scottish settlers. His first job in Argentina was the construction of housing for the settlers in the Santa Catalina, (now Llavallol). Richard Adams was the architect of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the first Anglican temple of South America. He also built the Presbyterian Church of
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Juan Antonio Buschiazzo


of the city of Buenos Aires. It was here that his four brothers and sisters were born. In 1862 he started work in the studio of the Italian architect Nicolás Canale and his son José, and in 1869 he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a degree in engineering. In 1875, he became a member of the Municipal Commission for Public Works in Belgrano and in 1878 he qualified as an architect. In 1879 his son, Juan Carlos, was born and was later to become an architect and work with
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Christian Narkiewicz-Laine


Architecture Biennial, and the Istanbul Design Biennial. In 2010, he institutes The European Prize for Architecture with the first award given in Madrid to the Danish Architect, Bjarke Ingels (2010), Graft Architects in Buenos Aires (2011), TYIN Architects in Istanbul (2012), Marco Casagrande in Buenos Aires (2013), Alessandro Mendini in Milan (2014), Santiago Calatrava (2015). In 2010, his studio in Galena, Illinois was vandalized and thousands of works of art were destroyed, including most of
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Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez


Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez (born 1967) is an Argentine architect, great-niece of Eva Perón. Rodriquez was born in Buenos Aires on December 28, 1967. She got her degree in architecture in 1992 from the National University of Buenos Aires. In 2002 she completed a master's degree in Photography from the University of Palermo. Rodriquez was appointed Director of the Historical Archives of the Province of Buenos Aires in 2000. A year later, she became President of the Institute of Social Welfare of the Province of Buenos Aires.
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Buenos Aires Central Post Office


The Buenos Aires Central Post Office (native name: "Palacio de Correos y Telecomunicaciones" or most commonly, "Correo Central") building, now the Néstor Kirchner Cultural Centre, was the seat of the "Correo Argentino" (Argentine Post Office Department) until 2005. It is located in the San Nicolás, Buenos Aires neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building was designed in the Neoclassical Beaux-Arts style and with Second Empire style elements by French architect Norbert Maillart. Construction started in 1899, and after
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Recoleta, Buenos Aires


Embassy (former Ortiz Basualdo Palace), the Brazilian Embassy (former Pereda Palace), the Jockey Club, and the luxurious Alvear Palace Hotel. All over Recoleta, "petits hôtels" which contrast with larger and more modern apartment buildings, still grace the neighborhood. Some of the work of the noteworthy architect, Clorindo Testa, is in Recoleta. Of importance is the National Library, the Buenos Aires Design center, and the building of the new Colegio de Escribanos de Buenos Aires (School of Legal Notaries of Buenos Aires
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The Return of the Spice Girls Tour


flags from different countries flashed across the backdrop screens. In late 2007, a fake email was posted by Perez Hilton on his site saying the Spice Girls had cancelled the Buenos Aires date, causing an official statement to be released saying that Buenos Aires and the other world tour dates were being finalized. Due to the expansion of the British and American legs of the tour, it was finally announced on 1 February 2008 that the end of the tour would take place in Toronto, on 26 February 2008, meaning the dates in
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Buenos Aires Central Business District


currently. Having undergone an impressive revival in merely a decade, it is one of the most successful recent waterfront renewal projects in the world. Numerous new residential high-rises of up to 50 stories have been built facing on the eastern half of Puerto Madero since 2000. These include El Mirador of Puerto Madero towers, Renoir Towers, El Faro towers, Chateau Tower of Puerto Madero, and the Mulieris towers, among others. Notable non-residential structures include the Repsol-YPF tower, the Hilton Buenos Aires, the
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Palace and Patriarchal Cathedral of Buenos Aires (Lisbon)


The Palace and Patriarchal Cathedral of Buenos Aires, would be a royal palace with an adjoining cathedral, both of great size, in a riverside zone to the west of Terreiro do Paço, denominated "Buenos Aires" (Translated: "Good Airs"), in modern Lapa, in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. The project was commissioned by El-Rei D.João V to the Italian architect Filippo Juvarra, but the works were never realized. At the beginning of the reign of King D. João V there were several deliberations
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Daniel Weil


Daniel Weil (born 1953 in Buenos Aires) is an architect and industrial designer. Weil studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires in 1977. Following qualifying as an architect, Weil moved to London to attend the Royal College of Art, obtaining an MA in 1981. Weil was a unit master for the Architectural Association and a Professor of Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art. In 2002, the Royal College of Art awarded Weil a Senior Fellowship. Upon leaving the RCA, Weil started designing his own products.
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Viktor Sulčič


Viktor Sulčič, also known as Víctor (or Victorio) Sulcic, was a Slovenian born Art Deco architect in Argentina. He was born in 1895 in Križ (in Italian "Santa Croce") near Trieste, and died in 1973 in Buenos Aires. After completing his studies of architecture in Florence and Bologna, Sulčič emigrated to Argentina in 1924. He joined two other architects there: José Luis Delpini and Raúl Bes. The two most famous buildings, projected by the team, are located in Buenos Aires: fruit and
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Rafael Viñoly


Rafael Viñoly Beceiro (born 1944) is a Uruguayan architect. He is the principal of Rafael Viñoly Architects, which he founded in 1983 and has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, London, Manchester, Abu Dhabi and Buenos Aires. Viñoly was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to Román Viñoly Barreto (a film and theater director) and Maria Beceiro (a mathematics teacher). He attended the University of Buenos Aires, receiving a Diploma in Architecture in 1968 and a Master of Architecture from the School of Architecture and
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Buenos Aires


several buildings of Buenos Aires such as the Iglesia Santa Felicitas by Ernesto Bunge; the Palace of Justice, the National Congress, all of them by Vittorio Meano, and the Teatro Colón, by Francesco Tamburini and Vittorio Meano. The simplicity of the "Rioplatense" baroque style can be clearly seen in Buenos Aires through the works of Italian architects such as André Blanqui and Antonio Masella, in the churches of San Ignacio, Nuestra Señora del Pilar, the Cathedral and the Cabildo. In 1912, the Basilica del Santisimo Sacramento was
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Retiro, Buenos Aires


was transferred that same year to the neighborhood of Balvanera. In 1854, was established in the neighborhood the Compañía Primitiva de Gas de Buenos Aires Ltda., a British gas company, that worked until it was nationalized in 1944. In 1910 the British residents of Buenos Aires financed the construction of the Tower of the English, on the occasion of the centenary of the May Revolution. The work was entrusted to the English architect Ambrose Macdonald Poynter, being inaugurated by the president Victorino de la Plaza on May 24, 1916 .
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Nicolás Dujovne


Nicolás Dujovne (born May 18, 1967) is an Argentine economist, appointed at the end of 2016 as Minister of the Treasury of the Mauricio Macri administration. Nicolás Dujovne was born in Buenos Aires on 18 May 1967. He is the son of the architect Berardo Dujovne. He graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and the University of California, as well as undertaking postgraduate studies at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He was Secretary of
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Landscape architecture


became a regulated profession, currently the leading academic institution is the UBA University of Buenos Aires""UBA Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo"" (Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism) offering a Bacherlor’s degree in Urban Landscaping Design and Planning, the profession itself is regulated by the National Ministry of Urban Planning of Argentina and the Institute of the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden. The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) provides accreditation of university degrees and non statutory professional registration for landscape architects. Once recognized by AILA, landscape
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Landmarks in Buenos Aires


in 1936. The building is characterised by the austerity of its lines, the lack of external ornamentation and its large prismatic volumes. It was declared a national historical monument in 1999, and is one of the most impressive architectural masterpieces of Buenos Aires. Standing at a height of 120 m, it still retains its impact against the modern skyline of the city. In 1939 its façade received an award from the American Institute of Architects. Palacio Barolo is a 22-story office building located at 1370 Avenida de Mayo. The Italian architect
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Alejandro Christophersen


Alejandro Christophersen (1866–1946) was an Argentine architect and artist of Norwegian descent who designed many important buildings in the city of Buenos Aires, including the renowned Anchorena Palace. Christophersen was born in Cádiz, Spain in 1866, the son of the Norwegian diplomat, Consul to Spain. He studied architecture in Belgium and art in Paris. In 1888 he arrived in Argentina, and settled in Buenos Aires, during his career as an architect he gave the port city many of its most important buildings. He was a professor at the
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Wednesday Theatre


production, by Ron Callanderbr 35. "Almost a Honeymoon" (aired 31 Aug. 1966). Previously aired in the UKbr 36. "The Stag "(aired 7 Sep. 1966) Previously aired in the UKbr 37. "The Interior Decorator" (aired 14 Sep. 1966) Previously aired in the UKbr 38. "A Crack in the Ice" (aired 21 Sep. 1966). By Ronald Eyrebr 39. "Hamlet" (aired 28 Sep. 1966) British production, starring Laurence Olivier.br 40. "Flight into
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Eduardo Catalano


Eduardo Fernando Catalano (December 19, 1917 – January 28, 2010) was an Argentine architect. Born in Buenos Aires, Catalano came to the United States on a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1945, after earning his second Master's Degree in architecture returned to Buenos Aires where he taught at the University of Buenos Aires and ran a private practice. Catalano then taught at the Architectural Association in London from 1950 to 1951, when he came back to the United States as a
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Buenos Aires Customs


The Buenos Aires Customs House ("Aduana") is a government building and architectural landmark in the Montserrat section of Buenos Aires. The French neoclassical building housing the Argentine General Customs Directorate (DGA) was commissioned during the administration of President José Figueroa Alcorta, and resulted from the marked expansion in Argentine foreign trade and the economy in the generation up to 1910, when the nation's GDP was estimated to have grown by over 8% a year. Local architects Eduardo Lanús and Pablo Hary were commissioned in 1909 to design the
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)


as the Argentine Pavilion for the 1889 Paris exhibition, and later dismantled and brought to Buenos Aires. In its new home, the museum became part of the International Centenary Exhibition held in Buenos Aires in 1910. Following the demolition of the Pavilion in 1932, as part of the remodeling of Plaza San Martín, the museum was transferred to its present location in 1933, a building originally constructed in 1870 as a drainage pumping station and adapted to its current use by architect Alejandro Bustillo. The museum was modernized both physically and in
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Amancio Williams


Amancio Williams (February 19, 1913 –October 14, 1989) was an Argentine architect and among his country's leading exponents of modern architecture. Amancio Williams was born in Buenos Aires in 1913. His father, Alberto Williams, was a well-known composer of chamber music and the founder of the Buenos Aires Music Conservatory. He enrolled at the School of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires, though an interest in aviation led him to leave school during his third year. This sabbatical ended in 1938, when he
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María Victoria Besonías


María Victoria Besonías (born 8 October 1947, Madrid) is a Spanish-born Argentinian architect employed at the University of Buenos Aires as a professor of architecture. She has won numerous architectural awards, in 2012 receiving the Trajectory and Merit Award from the Argentine Senate. In 1965, Besonías began her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanisnm at the University of Buenos Aires and graduated a decade later. She is faculty at FADU, the University of Buenos Aires, and a member of the jury’s panel of FADEA
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Club Hotel de la Ventana


Club Hotel de la Ventana was a large, luxurious hotel resort, built by the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and opened in 1911 near Villa Ventana, 17 km from the town of Sierra de La Ventana, in the southeast of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The resort was designed by the Italian architect Antonio Gherardi, who also designed the customs house in the nearby city of Bahía Blanca. Construction began in 1904, under the direction of the architects Gaston Luis Mallet and Jacques Dunant, with bricks provided by Ernesto
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Buenos Aires


the influence of Le Corbusier and European rationalism consolidated in a group of young architects from the University of Tucumán, among whom Amancio Williams stands out. The construction of skyscrapers proliferated in Buenos Aires until the 1950s. Newer modern high-technology buildings by Argentine architects in the last years of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st include the Le Parc Tower by Mario Álvarez, the Torre Fortabat by Sánchez Elía and the Repsol-YPF tower by César Pelli. Primary education comprise grades 1–7. Most primary schools in the city
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Antonio Bilbao La Vieja


Antonio Bilbao La Vieja (1892–1980) was an Argentine architect and rugby union footballer. He spent his whole sports career at San Isidro. And was the coach of the "Argentina national team" in 1927. Antonio Bilbao was born in Buenos Aires, son of Antonio Gervasio Bilbao and Edelmira Felisa Rosende Mitre, of Creoles origin. Their more remote ancestors were from La Rioja (Spain). He was an important Argentine architect, his first job was to build a great neighborhood park in La Tablada, (Greater Buenos Aires
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Francisco Gianotti


Francisco Gianotti (April 4, 1881February 13, 1967) was an architect who designed many important Art Nouveau buildings in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in 1881 in Lanzo, near Turin, Italy, he graduated as an architect from the Fine Arts Academy of Turin in 1904, together with his brother, Juan Bautista. In 1905 the two brothers took a post-graduate course together in Brussels and later they designed various pavilions for the 1906 International Exhibition in Milan. Gianotti arrived in Buenos Aires, in 1909 where, together
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Mario Gandelsonas


Mario I. Gandelsonas (born December 14, 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an American architect and theorist whose specializations include urbanism and semiotics. Gandelsonas is a founding partner of Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects, based in New York City, with Diana Agrest. In addition to his professional work, Gandelsonas is a scholar. He currently serves as the Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture at Princeton University and previously taught at Yale University and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mario I. Gandelsonas was born on 14 December 1938 in Buenos Aires
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Alejandro Armendáriz


of the Province of Buenos Aires, home to 38% of Argentines. Two out of three residents in the province live in the Greater Buenos Aires area, a quiltwork of largely working-class suburbs long aligned with Perón's populist Justicialist Party. Armendáriz selected as his running mate Elva Roulet, an architect from the Greater Buenos Aires suburb of San Martín whose personable demeanor complemented Armendáriz's reserved nature well. Polls gave neither man an edge, and on election day, October 30, as Argentines gathered in a then-record
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Mónica Weiss


Mónica Weiss (born 1956) is an Argentinian illustrator, artist, writer and architect (Buenos Aires University). She has illustrated more than 140 books and has actively worked for the rights of illustrators and to show the importance of illustration in Argentina. Mónica Weiss was born in Adrogué, province of Buenos Aires. Since she was 5 years old she studied painting and engraving with Nelia Licenziato and piano with Susana Agrest and classical dance with Marta de Lourenço. She studied architecture at Buenos Aires University and graduated in 1982. She
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Virginio Colombo


Virginio Colombo (1885–1927) was a prolific Italian architect later active in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in 1885 in Milan, Italy, Colombo studied architecture in the Brera Academy under Giuseppe Sommaruga, the city's leading exponent of the Art Nouveau style. A fellow student, Antonio Sant'Elia, later became the number one advocate of Futurism in Italian architecture. During the early part of the 20th century there were many immigrant Italian architects working in Buenos Aires including Francesco Tamburini, who designed the Teatro Colón, Vittorio Meano, who designed
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The Ultimate Fighter 4


(Original Air Date Sep 7, 2006) Episode 5: Flip-A-Coin (Original Air Date Sep 14, 2006) Episode 6: Captain Miserable (Original Air Date Sep 21, 2006) Episode 7: Drop to a Knee (Original Air Date Sep 28, 2006) Episode 8: True Colors (Original Air Date Oct 6, 2006) Episode 9: Semi-Final Match-Ups (Original Air Date Oct 12, 2006) Episode 10: Carter vs. Serra (Original Air Date Oct 19
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Wednesday Theatre


1967)br 26. Untitled documentary on Australian ballet with Robert Helpmann (aired 16 Aug. 1967)br 27. "Illyria" / "Elektra"* [double bill: two ballets] (aired 23 Aug. 1967)br 28. "A Ride on the Big Dipper"* (aired 30 Aug. 1967)br [Note: no episode aired on 6 Sep. 1967]br [29. Episode not traced] (aired 13 Sep. 1967)br [30. Episode not traced] (aired 20 Sep. 1967)br [31. Episode not traced] (aired 27 Sep. 1967)br
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Belgrano, Buenos Aires


the west of Belgrano lies Avenida General Paz, a major limited-access freeway that defines the city limits of Buenos Aires proper. Beyond this avenue lie the suburbs of Vicente Lopez, Florida and Olivos. International schools include: The lush park Barrancas de Belgrano was designed by the famous French-Argentine landscape/park architect Carlos Thays, who designed many open spaces throughout Buenos Aires. Several blocks north of the Belgrano University, Barrancas de Belgrano spans several city blocks and is overlooked by highrise upper-middle class apartment buildings.
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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Sarmiento historic museum


to the building where the museum is today in Belgrano, then the outskirts of the city. The building is an Italian-style townhouse, built in 1873 as planned by Juan Antonio Buschiazzo, one of the architects brought in the mid 19th-Century to Argentina by Bernardino Rivadavia. At the time, it housed the executive, legislative and judicial powers of the federal government, when they had to leave Buenos Aires. The National Congress, met in the biggest of it meeting when they declared Buenos Aires as the nation's
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Matías de Irigoyen


Matías de Irigoyen (25 February 1781 – 20 September 1839) was an Argentine soldier and politician. Matías Ramón de Irigoyen de la Quintana was born in (Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25 February 1781. His parents were Ignacio Irigoyen Echenique (c. 11 Mar 1728 – 17 Feb 1787) and Francisca de la Quintana Riglos (24 Sep 1734 – 14 Jun 1815). He was the second of 13 children. His older brother was Miguel de Irigoyen (2 October 1764 – 11 June 1822). He travelled to
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Dani Yako


Dani Yako (born 17 December 1955 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian photographer, journalist and architect. After finishing his studies at the University of Buenos Aires in 1975, Yako worked as a reporter for the "La Calle" newspaper. However, in the following year, within the context of the military dictatorship that ruled the country, Dani Yako was kidnapped by a commando of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and was detained for three days in the Libertador Building. This led to his exile to Madrid. Once
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Architecture of Argentina


The Architecture of Argentina can be said to start at the beginning of the Spanish colonisation, though it was in the 18th century that the cities of the country reached their splendour. Cities like Córdoba, Salta, Mendoza, and also Buenos Aires conserved most their historical Spanish colonial architecture in spite of their urban growth. The simplicity of the "Rioplatense" baroque style can be clearly appreciated in Buenos Aires, in the works of Italian architects such as André Blanqui and Antonio Masella, in the churches of San Ignacio, Nuestra Señora
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Air Force Network Integration Center


1994 – 30 Jun 1996; 1 Apr 1997 – 30 Apr 1998; 1 Oct 2000 – 31 Mar 2002; 30 Apr 2002 – 30 Sep 2003; 1 Oct 2003 – 30 Sep 2004; 10 May 2005 – 30 Sep 2006; 1 Oct 2006 – 30 Sep 2008; 1 Jul 2011 – 30 Jun 2013; 1 Oct 2013 – 30 Sep 2015; 1 Jan 2016 – 31 Dec 2017. https://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/432147/air-force-network-integration-
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Alberto Gorbatt


Alberto Gorbatt (born 1953 in Buenos Aires) is an architect at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1996, Gorbatt founded, and remains as director of ARQA, the first Open Community of Architecture, Design and Construction in Latin America. From this platform, he has oriented his practice toward the construction of social, exhibition and participative spaces between partners in the professional, academic and business worlds of architecture and design, focusing his proposals on the diffusion and interchange of ideas
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Julio Dormal


to its completion in 1906, respecting Meano’s original designs. In the city of La Plata, Dormal was involved with the building of the Government House, and in Buenos Aires with the final details of the Teatro Colón and with the remodeling of the old Teatro Opera. Dormal took over the building of the Pereda Palace in Buenos Aires, begun in 1919 for the wealthy doctor and cattle rancher Celedonio Pereda, when Pereda fell out with the original French architect, Louis Martin. Dormal died in 1924 and did not see the
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Palacio Salvo


Palacio Salvo () is a building in Montevideo, Uruguay, located at the intersection of 18 de Julio Avenue and Plaza Independencia. It was designed by the architect Mario Palanti, an Italian immigrant living in Buenos Aires, who used a similar design for his Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Finished in 1928, Palacio Salvo stands high with the antenna included. It was the tallest building in Latin America for a brief period. The site was bought by the Salvo brothers for 650,000 Uruguayan pesos. It was built on
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Abasto de Buenos Aires


the markets of the city, so architects José Luis Delpini, Viktor Sulčič and Raúl Bes designed a new market in the location of the Abasto market. Work started on December 28 of 1931 with the foundations and finished in 1934. The new Mercado de Abastos had an area of , railway access and underground parking. In 1939, the sale of meat and fish was allowed. On October 14, 1984, the central market was moved to the present "Mercado Central", location, outside the city of Buenos Aires,
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Nora Aslan


Nora Aslan (19 December 1937) is an Argentine visual artist and photographer, known for tapestry design and collage. Her work has been compared to that of Max Ernst, Fred Tomaselli, Hieronymus Bosch, and Matthias Grünewald. Born in Buenos Aires, she trained as an architect at the University of Buenos Aires. She is known for her photographs, collages and installations, working in the field of textile art, and producing series of works. One of these series called "Alfombras", were exhibited at the Centro Cultural
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Culture of Argentina


Arturo Pérez del Castillo, Hugo Pratt and Alberto Breccia). The architecture of Argentina can be said to start at the beginning of the Spanish colonization, though it was in the 18th century that the cities of the country reached their splendour. Cities like Córdoba, Salta, Mendoza, and also Buenos Aires conserved most their historical Spanish colonial architecture in spite of their urban growth. The simplicity of the "Rioplatense" baroque style can be clearly appreciated in Buenos Aires, in the works of Italian architects such as André Blanqui and
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Montevideo


of Uruguay (both the Estévez Palace and the Executive Tower). The Artigas Mausoleum is located at the centre of the plaza. Statues include that of José Gervasio Artigas, hero of Uruguay's independence movement; an honour guard keeps vigil at the Mausoleum. Palacio Salvo, at the intersection of 18 de Julio Avenue and Plaza Independencia, was designed by the architect Mario Palanti and completed in 1925. Palanti, an Italian immigrant living in Buenos Aires, used a similar design for his Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Juan Kurchan


Juan Kurchan (November 21, 1913 – November 3, 1972) was an Argentine architect and designer and a mentor of the Modern Movement in Argentina. He designed a portable seat known as the BKF Chair or butterfly chair. He was part of a group working with Le Corbusier on a plan for redevelopment of the city of Buenos Aires, and later entered the city administration and designed many new buildings there. He later became a director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Juan Kurchan was born in Buenos Aires on November
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Zaida Muxí


Zaida Muxí Martínez (born 1964 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine architect and city planner who graduated in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires, Muxí earned her doctorate from the Upper Technical School of Architecture of Seville and later served as professor in the Upper Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona. She is co-director, with Josep Maria Montaner, of the Máster Laboratory of the House of the 21st century of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Muxí collaborates in the supplement Cultura/s
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Palacio Haedo


The Palacio Haedo is a 19th-century building on the Avenida Santa Fe in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located to the south of the Torre de Los Ingleses and the Plaza San Martín and Monument del libertador Jose de Plaza San Martín, in close proximity to the Consulate of Colombia and the Gran Hotel Buenos Aires. It was built in the late 19th century as a residence for the Haedo family by architects Passeroni and Brizuela in the Neo-Gothic style. In 1871, the residence was acquired by Reynaldo Villar and
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and Battle of Salta (1813). Belgrano was one of the leaders of the Argentine Declaration of Independence, promulgated on July 9, 1816. The "Monumento de los dos Congresos" in the Plaza des los Dos Congresos in the Monserrat district, was created in stone from Nancy. The monument was designed by the Belgian architect Eugène D'Huicque (1877–1955) and the bronze statues are the work of the Belgian artist Jules Lagae(1862–1931). It was created in Brussels, finished in 1909, and inaugurated in Buenos Aires on July
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Landmarks in Buenos Aires


de la República" (Republic Square), the spot where the Argentine flag was flown for the first time in Buenos Aires, at the intersection of Nueve de Julio and Corrientes avenues. Its total height is and its base area is . It was designed by architect Alberto Prebisch, and its construction took barely four weeks. The obelisk is one of the main icons of the city, and a venue for various cultural activities (usually sponsored by the city government) and other events. It is the traditional gathering spot for
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keeps precious 18th century statues and altarpieces, as well as abundant Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque decoration. This museum of art is on Suipacha, in the Retiro neighborhood, in a large house built in the 1920s by architect Martín Noel in a neo-colonial style. The Buenos Aires town council bought the house in 1936, along with the art collection, which became the basis of the "Museo de Arte Colonial" that opened there a year later. In 1943, Isaac Fernández Blanco donated his collection to the
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Torre Aqualina


Paraná River. The Torre Aqualina was completed in late 2009, and was until the completion of the Dolfines Guaraní towers, the tallest building in Rosario, as well as in Argentina outside the city of Buenos Aires. Torre Aqualina was designed by Mario Roberto Álvarez, a Buenos Aires-born architect who also designed (among others) the Le Parc tower (the tallest residential building in Argentina), the seat of the Rosario branch of the Banco de la Nación Argentina, the intelligent building of the Rosario Board of Trade,
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Juan Antonio Buschiazzo


Juan Antonio Buschiazzo (October 29, 1845May 13, 1917) was an Italian-born Argentine architect and engineer who contributed to the modernisation of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the 1880s and to the construction of the city of La Plata, the new capital of the Buenos Aires Province. Born in 1845 in Pontinvrea, Province of Savona, Liguria, Buschiazzo was the son of Margarita Bresciani and Carlos Buschiazzo. In 1850 the family arrived to Argentina and took up residence in Belgrano, a town that was soon to become a neighbourhood
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Alfred Zucker


Alfred J. R. E. Zucker (January 23, 1852, Freiburg, Silesia – August 2, 1913, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a successful German-American architect, who worked in Galveston, Texas, Mississippi, New York City, and Buenos Aires. Alfred Zucker was born on January 23, 1852, in the town of Freiburg, Silesia, Prussia (since 1945 Świebodzice, Poland). He was educated at the Hannover Polytechnische Schule and the Bauakademie. He worked briefly for the government before immigrating to the United
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MBH Architects


Event Pavilion in Irvine, California; Newport Coast Villas in Newport Beach, California, which includes 600 timeshare units on 75 acres; and Marriott's Shadow Ridge in Palm Desert, California. For Hilton, MBH created the hotel construction documents for the Paris Las Vegas casino/hotel in Las Vegas, and was one of the architects for two Las Vegas Hilton Grand Vacations Clubs: Las Vegas Hilton and Strip. Currently MBH is working on the seismic upgrade of the San Francisco Hilton in Union Square along with the renovation of the
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Jackson, Robertson & Adams


Jackson, Robertson & Adams was an architectural firm out of Providence, Rhode Island. Established in 1912, it was originally made up of architects F. Ellis Jackson (1879-1950), Wayland T. Robertson (1873-1935), and J. Howard Adams (1876-1924). Prior to founding this firm, Jackson worked with Providence architect Howard K. Hilton. He was promoted to partner in 1902, the name being Hilton & Jackson. Upon Hilton's death in 1909, Jackson continued on alone under the Hilton &
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Hilton Brighton Metropole


The Hilton Brighton Metropole is a 4-star hotel and conference centre located on the seafront in Brighton, East Sussex. The architect was Alfred Waterhouse, who also was architect of University College London and the Natural History Museum, London. Currently the UK's largest residential conference centre in the South of England, it was built in 1890 and has 340 bedrooms. The General Manager is Sascha Koehler who has worked with Hilton for 20 years. Since 2000, it has been operated by Hilton Hotels & Resorts (previously it operated under the
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Barron Hilton


Hilton. Their oldest, William Barron Hilton, Jr., was born in 1948 and their youngest, Ronald Jeffrey Hilton, was born in 1963. Barron Hilton has 15 grandchildren, including Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton Rothschild; both of them are Richard Hilton's daughters. Barron Hilton's principal residence in Holmby Hills was originally designed in the 1930s for Jay Paley by architect Paul Williams. It was used as the 'Colby mansion' in exterior scenes for "The Colbys" television series. Hilton is a member of a duck
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Richard Mattern Montgomery


staff. Sep 1956-Aug 1959 In 1956 he was assigned as deputy commander of the 2d Air Force (SAC). Following this two-year tour, he became commander of the 3d Air Division at Guam, with responsibility for SAC Forces West of the 180th meridian. Sep 1952-Sep 1956 The assignment which did most to shape his subsequent career was that of chief of staff, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, in September 1952, a post he held until September 1956. As a principal staff
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Air Malawi


(2012) Limited, as a step towards selection of a competent strategic equity partner (SEP) to acquire new shares in Air Malawi through a recapitalisation scheme, said PC chief executive officer Jimmy Lipunga. He said to sustain the country's Bilateral Air Services Agreements, the level of participation within the SEP should bring the participation of Malawian nationals, both with the SEP and government shareholding, to 51 per cent. For this purpose, the new company would exclude its existing wholly owned subsidiaries, Air Cargo Limited and Lilongwe Handling
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Wilde, Buenos Aires


a physician who led local efforts to improve public health, including obtaining permits for the construction of the local hospital and sewer system. The 1885 opening of a Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway station at the site led to the establishment of Villa Jurado, the city's first subdivision (1889). Following a movement of English gardens, the city was developed by local architects as the residential borough of Avellaneda. Large grounds previously utilized by the local "gauchos" for the training of horses and farming land were eventually converted into large
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Ernesto Bosch


home built in Buenos Aires to evoke their days in the Franch capital. He commissioned French architect René Sergent in 1910 to design a mansion in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires, and contracted the Parisian interior designer André Carlhian and landscaper Charles Thays. Completed in 1917, the Bosch Palace later became of interest to U.S. Ambassador Robert Woods Bliss during a reception there in his honor, and in 1929, was sold by the Bosches to the U.S. State Department for use as the Ambassador's residence for around US$3 million. The
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José C. Paz


1900, he commissioned the building of a palace in the Retiro area of Buenos Aires. Designed by French architect Louis Sortais, the Paz Palace was begun in 1902 and completed in 1914. The Palace runs along the south west side of Plaza San Martín in downtown Buenos Aires and, housing over 6,000 m (65,000 ft) of space, it remains the largest single house ever built in Argentina. Its construction, however, outlived Paz, who died in Monaco in 1912. He was placed in a grand mausoleum in La
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Galileo Galilei planetarium


The Galileo Galilei planetarium, commonly known as Planetario, is located in Parque Tres de Febrero in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The idea that Buenos Aires should have a planetarium began to take shape in 1958 by an agreement between Socialist Councilman José Luis Peña and the municipal Secretary of Culture, Dr. Aldo Cocca. Construction began under the direction of architect Enrique Jan in 1962, and it was inaugurated on December 20, 1966. The first function was carried out on June 13, 1967 for the students of "
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Alicia Cazzaniga


Alicia Cazzaniga (1928-1968) was an Argentine modernist architect. She is best known for her work in designing the National Library of the Argentine Republic. Alicia Cazzaniga was born in Buenos Aires on July 9, 1928. She attended the National University of Buenos Aires where she studied with Francisco Bullrich and Eduardo Polledo and Horacio Baliero. Cazzaniga, along with Bullrich, Polledo, Bailero and others founded the Organization of Modern Architecture () in 1948. The group practiced Rationalism, forming contacts with members of the Bauhaus. In
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Teatro Argentino de La Plata


The Teatro Argentino de La Plata is the second most important lyric opera house in Argentina, after the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The theatre is located in a central block of the city of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province. The venue occupies the block bounded by the 9 and 10 streets and 51 & 53 avenues; it belongs to the "Monumental Axis" of public buildings in La Plata. The original building was a classic Italian opera house, conceived in renaissance style by the Italian architect Leopoldo Rocchi
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Comega Building


The Comega Building is located on 222 Avenida Corrientes in the corner of Alem Avenue, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Comega Building was the first reinforced concrete skyscraper built in Argentina and the first in Buenos Aires to show an exterior fully lined with travertine. It was built, in rationalist style, between 1931 and 1934 on a project by architects Enrique and Alfredo Joselevich Douillet. When first built it rivaled another architectural giant, the SAFICO Building, also built in rationalist style just 200 meters to its west on
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Nicolás García Uriburu


Nicolás García Uriburu (December 24, 1937 – June 19, 2016) was an Argentine contemporary artist, landscape architect, and ecologist. His work in land art was aimed at raising consciousness about environmental issues such as water pollution. Born in Buenos Aires in 1937, García Uriburu began painting at an early age and, in 1954, secured his first exhibition at the local Müller Gallery. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, where he received a degree in architecture, and relocated to Paris with his wife, Blanca
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Mario Roberto Álvarez


Mario Roberto Álvarez (November 14, 1913 – November 5, 2011) was an Argentine architect. Born "Mario Roberto Álvarez Elissamburu" in 1913 in the City of Buenos Aires, to Juana Elissamburu and Jerónimo Álvarez. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires School of Architecture in 1932, and graduated in 1936 with Gold Medal of Honours. He married Jorgelina Ortiz de Rozas, and they had two children. His first design was in 1937, a public building for the new Medical Center (Hospital Clinic) of the
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Graciela Silvestri


Graciela Silvestri (born 1954) is an Argentine architect, Professor of Architectural Theory and a senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina. Silvestri earned both her degree in Architecture and Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires. The main focus of her work is on landscapes and urban design. Silvestri is a professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina as well as a "Maestría en Historia de la Arquitectura" at the Torcuato di Tella Institute. From
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Eduardo Le Monnier


Eduardo Le Monnier (born Edouard Stanislas Louis Le Monnier in Paris, September 30, 1873 - February 14, 1931 in Buenos Aires) was a French architect recognized for his work in Brazil, Uruguay and mostly the Argentina. He studied at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris and moved to Brazil in 1894. There he worked on different projects, such as the General Carneiro station in Belo Horizonte and was a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Curitiba. He arrived in Buenos Aires on November 1, 1896
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Recoleta, Buenos Aires


Parisian style "petits hôtels", almost always designed by architects of French origin. The major portion of the building materials ("boiseries", slate roof tiles, marble for staircases, bronze and iron work, chandeliers with lead crystal prisms, glass lamp shades, ornate gilded mirrors, and beveled lead crystal window panes, mosaics, etc.) were brought from Europe. But just as it occurred in other neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, these grand buildings, in large part, have been demolished since the 1960s due to
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Juan Kurchan


21, 1913. He studied architecture at the School of Architecture in the University of Buenos Aires. On leaving the university in 1937, he traveled to Europe in the company of his colleague and friend Jorge Ferrari Hardoy and completed his training in the studio of Le Corbusier, where he met the Catalan architect Antonio Bonet. The three worked on a master plan for the city of Buenos Aires. In 1938 Kurchan joined Bonet and Ferrari Hardoy in setting up the architectural practice. These three designed the BKF Chair that same year for
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Itala Fulvia Villa


sequence to establish a link between historical data and the "pro-positivists". This format of the city planning was also part of the document prepared between 1948 and 1949 titled "Estudio del Plan de Buenos Aires" in which Fulvia was involved. Villa worked with several leading architects, including Odilia Suárez, in 1959 to create the Regulatory Organization Plan of the City of Buenos Aires. In 1962, she served as an advisor to Baliero Horacio and Carmen Cordova on the design for the Park City Cemetery of Mar del Plata
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Martha Levisman


Martha Levisman de Clusellas (born 1933) is an Argentine architect, archivist, and historian. She is best known for the three buildings of the Antorchas Foundation in Buenos Aires and for the part she played the development of the National Library in Buenos Aires. In 1985 she completed the first Antorchas building. Writer Roberto Segren notes how in her work on the first Antorchas building transformed a "decayed palace representative of the anonymous architecture of Italian builders of the late nineteenth century" in the San Telmo neighborhood. From 1952 to 1958
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Bank of the City of Buenos Aires


of the Bank of the City of Buenos Aires was built, with access through 630 Sarmiento St., today known as the "Centre Branch". This new access was commissioned to Aslan and Ezcurra architects, and consisted of a glazed tower with metal beams of seven underground levels, plus ground level and 18 floors. In August 2016, the headquarters were re-inaugurated with an avant-garde remodeling, following the parameters outlined in its original construction. This re-inauguration had been planned in 2008 by the current President of
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Architecture of Argentina


; the National Congress by Vittorio Meano and the Colón Opera House, by Francesco Tamburini. A number of young Italian architects, including Virginio Colombo, Francisco Gianotti and Mario Palanti who designed the Italian pavilion for the Exposición Internacional del Centenario (1910), went on to establish successful careers in Buenos Aires working in a number of styles, including Art Nouveau. Their buildings were some of the most important of the 20th century in Buenos Aires and those that remain continue to play a significant role in defining the city's architectural landscape
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Paz Palace


The Paz Palace is a former mansion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, housing the Military Officers' Association, a social club maintained by the Argentine military. One of Buenos Aires' most traditional social clubs, the Military Officers' Association was founded in 1881 by Nicolás Levalle, a decorated officer in the Argentine Army who believed such a facility could help mitigate tensions among the officer corps from Argentina's then-fractious provinces. The club relocated to a palace facing San Martín Plaza in 1938. The building was designed by French architect
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Retiro, Buenos Aires


a stadium of bullfighting built by the architect Francisco Cañete, that worked until 1819. In the Plaza de Toros took place the battles between the troops of Santiago de Liniers and the British army, occurred during the English invasions of 1806 and 1807. In 1821 was installed the first dissident cemetery of Buenos Aires, located in the vicinity of Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Socorro. This cemetery was place were buried the people who professed the Protestant religion, mostly English. The dissident cemetery operated in the neighborhood of Retiro until 1833, and
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Galerías Pacífico


Galerías Pacífico is a shopping centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located at the intersection of Florida Street and Córdoba Avenue. The Beaux Arts building was designed by the architects Emilio Agrelo and Roland Le Vacher in 1889 to accommodate a shop called the "Argentine Bon Marché", modelled on the Le Bon Marché in Paris. In 1896 part of the building was transformed into the first home for the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and in 1908 the British-owned Buenos Aires and Pacific railway company acquired part of the building for offices
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existence today, was designed by José N. Quartino and officially opened on 16 January 1937 in the presence the Argentina president General Agustín P. Justo. Declared a national historic monument in 2001, the building has become an icon of the city of Buenos Aires. The Confitería El Molino is an Art Nouveau style coffeehouse located on the corner of Callao Av. and Rivadavia Av., in front of the Argentine National Congress. In 1915 Cayetano Brenna, a famous confectioner, commissioned the Italian architect Francisco Gianotti, to design the building that
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Landmarks in Buenos Aires


1945 the building was remodelled by architects José Aslan and Héctor Ezcurra, and the offices were separated from the rest of the building. A large central cupola was constructed and decorated with 12 frescos by artists Lino Enea Spilimbergo, Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Manuel Colmeiro and Demetrio Urruchúa. These frescos, executed in 1946, are some of the most important in Buenos Aires. After having been abandoned for years, the building was renovated by Juan Carlos López and Associates and re-opened in 1990 as the shopping arcade "
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Buenos Aires House of Culture


The Buenos Aires House of Culture is an architectural landmark in the Montserrat section of the Argentine capital. The outmoded headquarters of what was then Argentina's second-largest newspaper, "La Prensa", led its influential proprietor in 1894, José Clemente Paz, to purchase a 1300 m² (14,000 ft²) lot on the newly opened Avenida de Mayo, and he commissioned local architects Carlos Agote and Alberto Gainza to design a new headquarters at the site. Agote and Gainza, both graduates of the "École Centrale des Arts et
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Miguel Gerónimo de Esparza


Cathedral of the City, and take part in the contracting of the architect Antonio Masella, who started the reconstruction works of the Cathedral in 1753. He served as Regidor Perpetuo (dean councilor) of Buenos Aires until 1766, during the viceroyalty of Manuel de Amat y Junyent. He also had a long career in legal matters in the Río de la Plata. In 1719, during the reign of Philip V, and viceroyalty Carmine Caracciolo, he served a defender of minors and the homeless of Buenos Aires. He served as
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List of works by Francisco Salamone


Francisco Salamone (1897-1959) was an Argentine architect known for designing, in just four years, more than 60 monumental buildings in Buenos Aires Province. He began his work in the city of Villa María, Córdoba doing paving works, a slaughterhouse and the "Centenario" Square. After several problems and accusations of corruption in the municipality he moved to the province of Buenos Aires. There, Salamone met the provincial governor, the conservative of the National Democratic Party. He entrusted Salamone with the task of building different public
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