Édifice Kavanagh

L'Edificio Kavanagh est une tour d'appartements située 1065 Calle Florida, face à la Plaza San Martín, dans le quartier de Retiro de la ville de Buenos Aires en Argentine.

1. Histoire

Inauguré en 1936, avec ses 120 mètres de hauteur, il fut en son temps l'édifice de béton armé le plus haut d'Amérique du Sud, détrônant ainsi le Palacio Salvo. Il fut aussi le premier immeuble de logements de Buenos Aires qui eût un équipement d'air conditionné. Sa construction est échelonnée, ce qui a permis d'établir des jardins sur de vastes terrasses. En 1999, cet édifice a été classé « monument historique national ».

1. Voir aussi

La liste des gratte-ciel de Buenos Aires

1. Références


1. Liens externes

(es) Le Kavanagh, déclaré monument historique (Clarin) (es) Le Kavanagh en architecture à Buenos Aires. Inclut une image à 360° Portail de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme Portail de Buenos Aires

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Kavanagh Building

The Kavanagh Building (Spanish: Edificio Kavanagh) is a residential skyscraper in Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Designed in 1934 by architects Gregorio Sánchez, Ernesto Lagos and Luis María de la Torre, it is considered a pinnacle of modernist architecture. At the time of its inauguration in 1936, the Kavanagh was the tallest building in Latin America surpassing the Palacio Salvo built in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1928, as well as the tallest building in the world with a reinforced concrete structure. It is considered one of the quintessential buildings of Buenos Aires. A 2013 Clarín survey of 600 people who are not architects or builders found that the Kavanagh is the building most liked by porteños. The Kavanagh Building was declared a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1994 and a National Historic Monument of Argentina in 1999.

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