Fue un post de hace unos dias, y ahora que estoy en el foro Argentino, lo agrego a la coleccion que espero se sume al buen trabajo de Renzo . RENZO estimo es otro fana de BAROLO. Y va este post para el y todos los que amamos BS AS.
Yo personalmente lo he dicho en algun post, no puedo pasar por av de mayo sin quedarme 5 minutos mirandolo.
Es tan singular, es tan personal y tiene tanta majestuosidad con su eclectica, su historia, y misterio.
Ojala se conserve por siempre. Creo que el dueño es la familia Thompson. Esto no tengo certeza.
Sirvio el faro para transmitir el resultado de la pelea FIRPO DEMPSEY , la luz verde indicaba que habia gaando, la roja que perdia.
An skyscraper with own paradise and purgatory
An skyscraper with own paradise and purgatory ( Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA )
A monument and skyscraper , called PALACIO BAROLO ( opened in 1923)
European influences are especially evident in the Buenos Aires architecture. Take, for example, the Palacio Barolo (or Barolo Palace). This 22-story office building may not strike modern visitors as the most flamboyant structure in the city, but in its time, it was—excuse the expression—one hell of a monument.
Italian architect Mario Palanti was educated in Milan and moved to Buenos Aires in 1909. He belonged to a fraternal order called La Fede Santa (the sacred faith), as had poet Dante Alighieri, according to legend, centuries earlier. In any case, this brotherhood certainly reveres Dante, and Palanti conceived of a grand building that would embody in great detail DanteÂ's epic poem The Divine Comedy. Luis Barolo, an Italian-born businessman who had made his fortune in textiles, agreed to bankroll the project—and in so doing lent it his name. When the building opened in 1923, it was the tallest building in the city; it held this title until 1935, when the Edificio Kavanagh was constructed. Palacio Barolo was the first major building in Argentina—and one of the first in the world—to have been made entirely from reinforced concrete. The buildingÂ's ornate styling set it dramatically apart from the more austere architecture that was common at the time, and it even featured a domed lighthouse at the very top with a rotating beacon.
Stairway (and Elevators) to Heaven
Although the average pedestrian may have seen nothing more than a strikingly styled skyscraper, those who looked more carefully could see innumerable references to The Divine Comedy. For example:
The buildingÂ's height of 100 meters represents the 100 cantos of the poem.
From bottom to top, the building has three distinct sections, corresponding to the three books of the poem. The ground floor represents Inferno, or hell; the next 14 floors are Purgatorio, or purgatory; and the uppermost floors are Paradiso, paradise or heaven.
Above the ground floor entranceway are nine vaults, corresponding to the nine infernal hierarchies.
Each floor has either 11 or 22 offices, just as most of the poemÂ's cantos have 11 or 22 stanzas.
And the list goes on. It is also said that in early June at 7:45 p.m. or thereabouts, the Southern Cross constellation aligns exactly with the axis of the building—though this may be a coincidence. I even read a report that DanteÂ's ashes were at one time intended to have been relocated to the Palacio Barolo, though that never in fact happened.
Across the Rio de la Plata in Montevideo, Uruguay, Palanti built Palacio Salvo, which is very similar in design to the Palacio Barolo but slightly larger—and intended for residential, rather than commerical, use. Like Palacio Barolo, it features a lighthouse at the top; the two lights may even have been visible to each other on a clear night in the 1920s. Today, both buildings have been eclipsed by much larger and flashier structures, but they continue to lend their respective towns a taste of other worlds—in this life or the next.—JK
the top of building have a lighthouse with 300 000 lamps.
and the history (1923) say:
when happened the box match world champion, Firpo vs Dempsey, this lighthouse used for to show to all cities ( on line , hahah) , who win the match. The lamp red or the lamp green .( sorry my english)> |
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