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test pano 10 fotos head nodal ninja 3 for a study for the gallery.The Güemes Gallery
was considered the first skyscraper built in Buenos Aires, with its 14 floors and 87 meters high.
At passer of those years as surprised variety of uses and functions, which housed inside it. In the basement, a theater, a cabaret and restaurant; housing flats that gave Florida and floors of office on St. Maarten in the terrace floor 14, another restaurant with veranda. All this surrounded by technicians alardes: elevators able to walk 140 meters in 60 seconds; systems fire that pumped up to 24 thousand liters per hour and they were activated via electrical alarms located on the ground floor and basements. Different sectors have refrigeration, heating and ventilation, and was up by indiscreet comidilla bright informing the board about the occupation of the offices. A system of pneumatic tubes served as the internal mail of the building. No less impact caused the combination of natural and artificial lighting of the vault and the bronze of passage. Or the details of bronze windows and doors of the elevators. The theater had seats mounted on a slab of reinforced concrete, which in turn, had support pivoting capable of changing the slope of the courtroom. The ensemble gave an impression that slashing the futuristic.
The promoters of the works were salteños Emilio San Miguel and David Shepherd, owners of great fortune and owner of the house from 1830 that had on the ground. At first it was thought to lift the palace only on Florida Street, but later joined the project Banco Supervielle, which owns the lot that looked to St. Maarten. It then opted for a building-passage connecting the two streets through a gallery of 116 meters. The undertaking was given to Italian architect Francisco Gianotti. The gallery was considered one of the summits of Art Nouveau works. Construction began in 1913, faced many problems because their owners were bankrupt by the cost of work rose from 10 to 15 million pesos strong, compounded by the inevitable collapse of the boat caused by a German submarine, which brought Italian marble facade on Florida.
The name of the gallery (cost fifteen million pesos strong) pays tribute to hero maximum of Salta province, Major General Martin Miguel de Güemes. On December 15, 1915, the inauguration was organized by the Circle of the Press and was attended by the President, Victorino de la Plaza and descendants of prócer Salta.
Florida street, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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LLukeBE [2008-06-27 17:23:08 +0000 UTC]
Nice place! I visited when I was in BA! [link] , [link] Nice art deco gallery
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lunarstorm [2008-06-27 14:29:34 +0000 UTC]
what a beautiful room
fantastic way to captore its beauty
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