Look at this old building in Buenos Aires, it's one of the many jewels that you can find in the city. 210 ft. tall
Architect: Rönnow (Danish)

In its offices was that the Austro-Hungarian Empire Legacy worked until its disolution in 1918.

This presence reflects on its shapes and meanings: the highest dome, crowned by a Sun, represents the image of the Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Hapsburg; while the smaller one possesses a crown and a moon (then lost) that symbolize the presence of the Empress Elisabeth (Sissy) of Possenhofen, Queen of Bavaria, Austria. Their author unfolds an ornamental repertoire plagued of symbols and associations:

Each one of the colossuses of the antropomorphus brackets was done in the image and likeness of those who constructed the building (the blacksmith, the bricklayer, the carpenter, the own architect). In its basement and crowning there are images from the Argentine fauna, like condors, penguins, bears, owls, and even from the indigenous population. Those were built by assignment of the Architect Otto Wulf.

This singular work would be the only one carried out by the danish architect Rönnow –of the Jugendstil school- in the country. Jugendstil: In German is a synonym of Art Nouveau.

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just crossing the street...
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cool building, needs a cleaning.

Absolutely beautiful..

What's up with the first floor?
Beautiful building!
It' s a pitty that my homecity at that time got height limits - 6 floors and 20something meters - otherwise we would have something similar at home. Buenos Aires did not have height limits?

No, we didn't.. That's why we got a few skyscrapers at the time (a 100 mts skyscraper in 1921 and some 80 mts skyscrapers around 1910)

Now we do have a height limit: 180 mts

I love buildings like these.

fantastic building, history and city :happy:

A treasure!

What's up with the first floor?


it's closed... but don't worry because that district is growing a lot. and there aren't any more offices available, so they are doing up a lot of old buildings

I LOVE THIS BUILDING!!

Looks gorgeous ;)

I like it ,a LOT

Great building!!! ;)

The detail in that building is amazing

Amazing.It's a shame I didn't visit this building when I was in BA last year :(

I love Buenos Aires and its buildings but this one kinda gives me the creeps... lol

That building is awesome, I would kill to live on the top floor

^^ I would kill to have it in my city ;) This building should be on the gold list of UNESCO or something..

Wow, lovely.. :okay:

Cool, beautiful details!

Wow, what a beautiful building!! I have never seen that before...Bs As surprises me everyday:okay:

I like this!

10/10 this is the first time I gave this score to anyone. Amazinig building.

It's a nice building but it's abandoned unless they convert it to condos.

I really have to live in Buenos Aires some time!

If only it were restored, it'd look more amazing than it already does.

I read at the Argentinian forum that Starbucks, which is gonna be located on the first floor, was tampering with the building. Fortunately, they were stopped cuz they didn't have the permits.