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Puerto Madero
Puerto Madero is the largest urban redevelopment in a port area in the world. These days it's one of the best places in the city.
It's located in the south part of the coast in the city very near financial and administrative center. The best way to get there would be taking the subway B line to the last station downtown Leandro N. Alem and there walk a couple of blocks to get there. Buses are really complicated and they're not a very pleasant form of transport. |
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Buenos Aires was born and grew with a close relationship to its role as a port, which would become, in time, a point of commercial and communication ways concentration.
The works of Puerto Madero started in 1887 and were completed by 1897. The dramatic increase of international trade until the end of 19th century and the turn of the 20th century, brought along the increase of vessels size, what turn insufficient the dock port. |
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Between 1911 and 1925 Puerto Nuevo was buit, which continued to the north of Puerto Madero. The original port started to act as secondary, entering too soon into an obsollescence process.
Since then, several plans were created to integrate Puerto Madero to the urban web, including the plan for Buenos Aires by Le Corbusier. |
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Its location, adjacent to the city center, its wide area and its connection to the riverfront, made it appropriate for installing commercial and administrative activities, and as a place for leisure. Several circumstances delayed the materialization of this project.
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In November 1989, the Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero S.A. was incorporated, and received the domain of the area and the authority to carry out its urban development. Its work made posible the recovering of this strategic area, representing for its scope and repercusion, the most important urban development that took place in Buenos Aires, with international trascendence.
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Fifteen years after renovations started it's a district of it's own with museums, great restaurants, very beautiful parks and several landmaks.
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Hilton hotel, designed by renowned architect Mario Roberto Alvarez.
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La mujer footbridge by Santiago calatrava.
I particulary don't like it very much. It looks like some random project they had there unbuilt and they placed it there. |
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from the other side
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