Palacio de Aguas Corrientes - Buenos Aires, Argentina
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S 34° 35.967 W 058° 23.667
21H E 372132 N 6170491
This amazing building, looking like a palace, was in fact an enormous water pump station, providing water to the city of Buenos Aires.
Waymark Code: WM128H5
Location: Argentina
Date Posted: 03/29/2020
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The facility was built between 1877 and 1894, designed by the architect Carlos Nyströmer. It partially replaced the existent water tower, located in Lorea Plaza. It is huge building, taking a whole block. Its architecture is French renaissance, and has its outer walls covered with 300,000 glazed and multi-colored terra cotta tiles which came straight form the famous British ceramics maker, Royal Doulton.
Nowadays it hosts the Buenos Aires water company, a small water museum and an archive.
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"It features a tin mansard roof, and is emblazoned with escutcheons representing the 14 Argentine provinces, at the time.
The building's entrance is graced by two caryatids, and the property, by landscaped gardens that includea bust created by Norwegian sculptor Olaf Boye in honor of engineer Guillermo Villanueva, the first Director of the Buenos Aires Water Supply and Drainage Company Limited, the then British-owned municipal water works inaugurated in 1869.[2]
The building was transferred to the City of Buenos Aires following the 1892 nationalization of the British-owned company over service quality concerns. The company, eventually known as Obras Sanitarias (OSN), was reprivatized in 1993 with a 30-year contract. The contract's rescission in 2006 transferred the property to AySA, a State enterprise, however. The palace still houses a number of water company offices, Historic Archives and a small water works museum.
The building figures prominently in the book "Santa Evita" by Tomas Eloy Martinez. It is also mentioned in his book "The Tango Singer"."
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