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KAVANAGH BUILDING
Location:
Florida 1065 corner with San Martín – Retiro
The
local “porteña” millionaire Corina Kavanagh commissioned in 1934 one of
the most prestigious architectural firms in the prosperous Buenos Aires
at the beginning of the 20th. Century.
Mrs.
Kavanagh sold two of her estates so as to finance construction and kept
for herself the apartment on floor 14, the only one covering a whole
floor. The building is a stepped reinforced concrete tower 120 mts.
High, 32 floors, and 105 housing apartments.
Its
stands opposite Plaza San Martín. When it was opened it was the highest
building in Latin
America and the largest reinforced concrete structure in the world. The
style is rationalistic and characterized by the austerity of the lines,
lack of external ornaments and the great prismatic volumes.
The
stepped construction gave place to gardened terraces.
It
has a shape similar to the bow of a ship and due to where the building
stands it appears the “bow” is pointing to the River Plate.
It was declared World Heritage of Modern Architecture by Unesco in 1999.
Because of this the owners are not obliged to pay municipal taxes.
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