This avenue that was
opened in the decade of the 20. It connects
a time where the one is developed it uses of
the armed concrete with the construction of
big buildings. Period this of consolidation
of big companies, of commercial euphoria and
economic stability. The profile of the Diagonal
is armed with big constructions, central headquarters
of big financial signatures to industrial of
the moment, with an uniform height of 10 floors
and a great cornice that it unifies them. They
represent an image of force and solidity.
From the Square, the Diagonal opens a long
perspective with the obelisco of Buenos Aires
like background topic.
In the first corner of the avenue and the
street San Martin the elegant figure of the
old building of the Former
Uruguayan Argentinean Bank .
To the height of the 543, and contiguous to
the previous one, a magnificent building appears,
characterized by a front structured by high columns
20 meters high that, in the horizontal environment
of the avenue obtains an unique and achieved
vertical character. Their author was the architect
Arturo Prins and the construction dates of the
year 1926
You arrives this way to the corner of Diagonal
with Florida that shows an environment of 5 Corners
and 5 domes each one with a particular conformation;
all are clipped against the sky or some facade
of I build neighbor. Seeming sometimes forgotten,
they crown many buildings of Buenos Aires, creating
beautiful spaces, so attractive that once discovered
they don't stop to be looked for.
On the Southwest sidewalk you can see the building
of La
Equitativa del Plata .
Crossing the pedestrian street Florida to the
right hand, if finds the Bank
of Boston.
Crossing the pedestrian street Florida to the
right hand, a building faced the Bank of Boston
marks the corollary one of one of the corners
but outstanding and beautiful of Buenos Aires,
in front of the same monument
to Roque Saenz Peña. We refer to Building
Bencich Hnos.
Between both, the modern design becomes present
in the position of Municipal Tourist Information
on the street Florida.
Crossing the Diagonal, in the southeast sidewalk,
it can the building of the Bank of Boston it
turns. The same one Le Monnier has another work
in its sidewalk contrary of Diagonal North, called
Building Miguel Bencich, to the height of the
614 / 16.
Passing to the height of the 700, we can see
to the left hand, on the same hand the very attractive
building of the former
Bank di Nápoli.
With another line formal but with the same approaches
of a new architecture emblemática, we
find in the corner of the diagonal and President
Perón the building
Shell Max.
Exactly before this building, and as a product
of a residual space in the orthogonal crossing
of two street (Esmeralda and President Perón)
and the North Diagonal, a very small plazoleta
appears with a Plazoleta and Monument to Lisandro
de la Torre
In the sidewalk faced that of the building Shell
Max and the statue of Lisandro de la Torre ,
we find to the height of North Diagonal 725,
a facade of a clear academic order that belongs
to a traditional hotel of Buenos Aires, the
Continental one.
Some blocks but it advances, and in the same
hand that the Continental one, a building that
is a characteristic exponent of the architecture
monumentalist of the Argentinean State of the
decades of ´40 ´50 appears: the offices
of the building
YPF.
Very attractive it is, some blocks but it advances,
the presence of a new building that we could
define it as "high tech". it is in
the intersections of the North Diagonal, Sarmiento
and Suipacha, with a front on the Avenue that
respects the line of cornisamientos of the tenth
floor conscientiously. It is attractive the development
of the facade and their crowning, in a volumetric
composition that " makes reference" to
you finish off them of old buildings finished
in magnificent domes. That reference is a lot
but that evident and the result has been very
achieved its profile then it doesn't contrast
violently with that of its environment.
In the contrary sidewalk, a small street called
Caravels ends, of less than 200 extension meters
and that it passes from behind of the well-known
Mercado del Plata, monumental modern building
that belongs to the government of the city, where
years behind it was possible to find some bars,
bohemian havens and tangueros. Regrettably, another
of the places of rotten Buenos Aires forever.
Finally, to the height of North Diagonal at the
1000, we meet with the intersection of the traditional
avenue Corrientes and the avenue 9 of Julio,
the immense vehicular artery, product of a widening
carried out in the decade from the ´30
to the one that was accompanied with a construction
that today identifies the Buenos Aires ones as
the emblem of the city: the Obelisco. |
