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BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA



Welcome to the new thread of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a new part of the collection of threads of the countries and cities of the world:














The list:





1) Quick City Overview: Buenos Aires
2) República Tower
3) Rosedal
4) Facultad de Derecho (Law School)
5) Agronomía (Part 1)
6) Agronomía (Part 2)
7) Galerías Pacífico
8) Galerías Pacífico (Part 2)
9) Barrio Parque (Part 1)
10) Barrio Parque (Part 2)
11) Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires (National School)
12) Manzana de las Luces
13) Palacio de Aguas Corrientes (Water Company Palace)
14) COMEGA Building
15) Hotel Jousten
16) Puerto Madero (Part 1)
17) Puerto Madero (Part 2)
18) Hilton Hotel Buenos Aires
19) Hotel Savoy
20) Full Trip on the Historic Tramway
21) Former Bank of London
22) Skylines of Buenos Aires
23) Aeroparque
24) Aeroparque: Airplanes/Spotting
25) Palacio Paz
26) Palacio Paz: Interiors
27) Palacio Barolo (2014)
28) Pasaje Rivarola
29) Fragata Sarmiento
30) Microcentro Porteño / Downtown (Part 1)
31) Microcentro Porteño / Downtown (Part 2)
32) Diagonal Norte (Part 1)
33) Diagonal Norte (Part 2)
34) Bencich Building (Diagonal Norte & Florida)
35) Galería Güemes
36) Buenos Aires from the Air (by a Drone)
37) Palermo (Part 1)
38) Palermo (Part 2)
39) Night of the Libraries (2016)
40) From the Train: Retiro-Barrio Chino-San Fernando
41) Overview of the Rail Lines
42) Jefatura de Gabinete (Former SOMISA Building)
43) City Hotel
44) Former Palace of the Government (Part 1)
45) Former Palace of the Government (Part 2)
46) Art Decó in Buenos Aires
47) Skyscrapers of Buenos Aires
48) San Isidro: Cathedral
49) Metropolitan Cathedral
50) House of Catalonia
51) Basílica Santa Rosa de Lima
52) Woman's Bridge
53) Buenos Aire-La Plata Highway
54) Hotel de Inmigrantes
55) Beaux Arts in Buenos Aires
56) Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires
57) Embassy of France (Ortiz Basualdo Palace)
58) Colegiales (Neighborhood)
59) Munich Brewery
60) Monumental Stadium (River Plate)
61) Former Post Office (CCK)
62) Belgrano (Neighborhood)
63) Enrique Larreta Museum
64) Alvear Avenue
65) Hipódromo de Palermo
66) Pasaje Rivarola
67) Palace of Justice
68) Medalla Milagrosa
69) UCA Puerto Madero
70) Villa del Parque & Villa Devoto (Neighborhoods)
71) Santa Felicitas
72) English Neighborhood of Caballito
73) Gran Rex Theatre
74) Recoleta (Neighborhood)
75) Avenida de Mayo
76) Kavanagh Building
77) Villa Urquiza & Nuñez (Neighborhoods)
78) Villa Crespo (Neighborhood)
79) Diagonal Sur Avenue
80) National Library
81) Churches of the Downtown
82) Pasaje Lanín
83) King Fahd Mosque
84) San Andrés: Presbiterian Church
85) Stock Exchange (MerVal)
86) Manzana de las Luces
87) Café Tortoni
88) Coghlan & Villa Ortúzar ((Neighborhoods)
89) Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA)
90) Subway Network
91) Scientific and Technological Pole
92) Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum
93) Otto Wulff Building
94) Basílica Nuestra Señora de Buenos Aires
95) YPF Tower (César Pelli)
96) Vicente López (Neighborhood)
97) San Martín Square & Torre de los Ingleses
98) Chinatown Buenos Aires
99) First Methodist Church
100) Autumn in Buenos Aires
101) Vélez Sarsfield - Villa Luro - Liniers (Neighborhoods)
102) Torres Renoir - Mulieris - Le Parc Puerto Madero
103) Port of Buenos Aires
104) Auditoría General de la Nación
105) Callao Avenue
106) Botanical Garden
107) Bouchard Tower & Embassy of Japan
108) Bencich Buildings
109) Cabildo de Buenos Aires
110) Winter in Buenos Aires
111) Railway Stations of Retiro
112) Epic Monuments of Buenos Aires
113) Classic old Cars in Buenos Aires
114) Palaces & Mansions of Caballito
115) Chacarita & La Paternal (Neighborhoods)
116) Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA)
117) Embassies of Buenos Aires
118) Terminal Buquebús Puerto Madero
119) Tramways of Buenos Aires
120) Temperley
121) Lomas de Zamora
122) San Fernando
123) Passageways of Buenos Aires
124) Armenian Cathedral of Buenos Aires
125) Lezama Palace (Fábrica Canale)
126) Ezeiza International Airport (Ministro Pistarini)
127) National Congress (2016)
128) Casa Rosada & Plaza de Mayo (2016)
129) Skyline desde el Francisco Papa (Buquebus)
130) Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (2016)
131) Club Ferrocarril Oeste
132) Colón Theatre (2016)
133) Avenida de Mayo (2016)
134) Constitución Railway Station
135) La Boca & San Telmo (2016)
136) Aduana de Buenos Aires
137) Recoleta Cemetery (2017)
138) San Lorenzo: Club & Stadium
139) Palacio Barolo
140) Fishing Club
141) Ministerio de Agroindustria
142) Park Hyatt Hotel (Duhau Palace)
143) Libertador Building (Ministry of Defense)
144) Ministerio de Economía
145) Museum of Decorative Arts
146) Space Tower & Parque de la Ciudad
147) Club Italiano
148) 9th of July Avenue
149) Mercado de San Telmo
150) Abasto de Buenos Aires
151) Floralis Genérica (Mechanical Flower)
 
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#7 ·
Thank you guys for the feedback.




Those were taken from some of the skyscrapers of Catalinas (shown in the next images), but those are close all the year and they only opened for a public event, the Open House 48HS B.A.

I would try some other buildings like the top of the Barolo Palace, the highest floors of the German Club (at the Microcentro), the restaurant of the roof of the COMEGA Building (I believe they closed it for a couple of months), and observation decks from the top of famous hotels such us the Alvear Hotel, the Sofitel, or the Hotel Panamericano. I would recommend to call them after going.
 
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2. SKYSCRAPERS OF CATALINAS


These are some of the towers placed between the Leandro N. Alem and Eduardo Madero avenues, which conforms the skyline who can be seen from Puerto Madero. The terrains were part of the Catalinas Masterplan (in the 1970s), planned in International Style towers. However, the original masterplan wasn't finished and several dark courtain wall buildings stays in most of those terrains today. At the same time, the area built by these towers went more even far away, going across the Microcentro and getting to the front of the famous Luna Park.

These are them, in order of appearance:

1) BankBoston Tower (Architect: César Pelli)
2) Bouchard 710 Tower (Architect: Mario Roberto Álvarez)
3) Bouchard Plaza Tower (Architects: SEPRA, HOK, y Aisenson)
4) Pirelli Tower (Architect: Mario Bigongiari)
5) República Tower (Architect: César Pelli)














































 
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3. PARKS OF BUENOS AIRES



Buenos Aires is also known for its amazing parks, most of them designed by Carlos Thays in the beginning of the twentieth centrury. The biggest ones are the famous Parque 3 de Febrero (often called “Palermo Woods”) and the Almirante Brown Park, in the south of the city. Most of the parks of Buenos Aires were planned following the french urbanism of that time, as well as most of the parks of the other cities of the south and central America.

These are the ones I visit the most:

1) The Rosedal of Palermo
2) The Botanic Garden (Palermo)
3) The Japanese Garden (Palermo)



THE ROSEDAL OF PALERMO
















THE BOTANIC GARDENS


















THE JAPANESE GARDENS














 
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4. LA BOCA – CAMINITO - RIACHUELO


Caminito is today a central touristic point of Buenos Aires where you're going to hear every language but spanish. Since the decade of 1990, just a few blocks around Caminito were guarded by the police, but since the crisis of the country in 2001 and the revaluation of the south of the city, more blocks were added to the touristic area.

Caminito is exclusively touristic nowadays, but it was very different back in the old days of the beginning of the 20th Century. In those days, the whole neighborhood was full of ships, cranes, fights between the "guapos porteños" (the name given to the bad guys of that times in Buenos Aires), and even a big bridge to transport the tramway from the capital city to the suburbes ("Gran Buenos Aires"), in front of the ending of the river called Riachuelo.

However, La Boca is far known because of one of the most important football clubs of the world: the Club Atlético Boca Juniors. It's in this neighborhood were the tourists get to know the astounding passion of the argentine people for the football, being the most famous sport in the country.

The roots of Buenos Aires stays in La Boca and the south of the city. These images capture those places:


















 
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5. ANCHORENA PALACE – (SAN MARTÍN PALACE)



On the other side of Caminito, there's the rich neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. After the Yellow Fever in the beginning of the 20th Century on the south of the city, the wealthiest families went to the north of Buenos Aires, to the famous neighborhoods of Recoleta and Retiro, where they built gorgeous palaces whom architectural styles were based on the old french aristocracy from the last centuries.

There's 3 central train stations in Buenos Aires: Retiro, Once, and Constitución. Argentina was, since the 20th Century, one of the most important epicenters of the world agricultural industry, and most of those landowners lived in front of these stations, where they had the trains who went to their lands, mostly in the Buenos Aires province.

The San Martin Palace (also known as Anchorena Palace) is one of the palaces that can be seen today. Most of them were converted to museums or embassies, so it's highly recommended to visit them while coming to the city.



















 
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6. AGRONOMIA (NEIGHBORHOOD OVERVIEW)


This time, I bring you a different point of view of Buenos Aires, far away from the touristic sites. On the west of the city, there's middle-class (and some high-class) neighborhoods where the argentinean culture can be felt in a different way. Plenty of trees can be seen and the architectural styles have, again, a strong influence of Italy, France, and Spain (specially from the north of France). You can see people drinking "mate", the most argentinean drink around, made of hot water and herbs (called "yerba mate"). You may also see people washing their cars in the streets, cats living in front of the houses, family shops, and very old bars (called "bares notables") which have more than 100 years old.

Agronomia is one of those neighborhoods. Most of its extension is occupied by the University of Agronomy (like the Central Park, but made of farms), almost at the middle of the city.

These are the images:



















 
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