Estadio Luna Park stands out for its high, rounded roof that hangs over the corner of Bouchard and Corrientes. It began as a traveling circus tent before Ismael Pace and Juan Lectoure built this permanent concrete shell in nineteen…
Evita's Buenos Aires
Follow the footprints of Eva Perón across downtown Buenos Aires, from her fateful first meeting with Juan Perón to the grand offices and plazas where she built her legendary legacy.
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1. Estadio Luna Park
2. Palacio Libertad, Domingo F. Sarmiento
The Palacio Libertad displays a massive, rounded corner tower topped by a distinctive glass dome that glows at night. Originally built as the central post office, this building took twenty-one years to complete because the architects kept…
3. Casa Rosada
The Casa Rosada stands out for its facade, painted a pale, chalky pink that covers the entire building. It serves as the seat of the executive branch of the Argentine government. In eighteen ninety-eight, President Julio Roca ordered the…
4. Museo Legislatura de la CABA
The Palacio de la Legislatura in Buenos Aires features a massive four-sided clock tower that rises over three hundred feet above the intersection of Peru and Hipolito Yrigoyen streets. This building houses the city’s legislative body…
5. Hogar de la empleada de la fundación Eva peron
The seven-story building on Carlos Calvo Street features a distinctive rounded corner and clean, modernist lines that cut a sharp profile against the older neighborhood. Eva Perón opened this home in nineteen fifty to provide housing for…
6. Ministerio de Capital Humano
The Ministerio de Capital Humano occupies the former headquarters of the Ministry of Public Works, a nineteen-thirties skyscraper that commands the center of the avenue with its massive, dark stone facade. It was the first skyscraper in…