It is the old port of Buenos Aires, built in 1887 according to Eduardo Madero's project and desafected for their port use to half of the decade of 1920. Along the time several plans were presented to transform it, as that of J.C. Forestier in 1925, Juan Briano in 1930, Him Corbusier in 1929/40 and those of official organisms from 1948 up to 1986. The transformation of port areas is not a novel phenomenon in the world: Barcelona, London, Liverpool, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Toronto, Amberes and Genova have reconstructed their obsolete port areas.
Port Madero incorporates today like a new neighborhood, the 101, to the numeration already mythological of the 100 neighborhoods of the Buenos Aires city. The reconversion of the port, with the creation in 1989 of the Corporation Old Port Madero CORP., is at the moment the most important program in urban development. Privileged by their central and contiguous position to the historical helmet, their 170 hectares are an attractive pole for business and with housings, developed in a consent mark and public and private participation. As a result of a national competition of ideas, recovered the port infrastructure, preserving the landscape of dikes and old deposits and incorporating them as new public spaces for the recreation and the entertainment. Offices were designed for financial organizations and of services, residences, gastronomy, centers of civic, cultural use, university student and sport, reconquering this way the border of the Rio de la Plata. The projects were carried out by a group of winning architecture studies of the with-course, among them Baudizzone, Lestard and Sticks; J.C. López, Banks Fields, Sepra, Béccar Beaches her, Robirosa and Pasinato; Enrique Altuna and associates; Azumendi, Cernuti, Foster, lovine; Dujovne, Hirsch, Manteola, Sánchez Gómez, Santos Solsona; Schustermann; and Enrique Katzenstein. In 1994 they were approved the projects definitively.
From Viamonte and Av. A. M. de Justo will be able to appreciate in perspective the long array of ocher-red docks, of fabricated brick with machine and used at sight. They are a clear expression of the English technology contributed by the company Hawkshaw they are & Hayter, at the end of the century IXX and built between 1900 and 1905. The docks possesses a front on the Av. A. M. de Justo and other, on the edge of the water, on the pedestrian pier. Both fronts extend halfway along 3 km. The external walls of brick are drawn by pilasters and arches finished off by windowsills and concrete cornices. The original materiasl was of iron for the windows, while the iron and wood were the utilized materials for the sliding entrance.
The docks had an underground, it plants it lowers and three floors. The interior was originally divided in pavilions separated by walls fire-break. Each pavilion possessed hoist and stairway and, for the manipulation of goods, also a gallery and platforms toward the jetty, where the cranes moved the shipment of the ships that was introduced by the entrance. The inverse process was made of the other side of the building, where the load was lowered (or ascent) to the street by means of cranes murals.
Traveling the Av. A. M. de Justo will observe a series of facades of luxurious restaurants and, in hours of lunch and it has dinner, a constant movement of visitors and automobiles that transform it into an avenue "gourmet". The rhythm quiets down when walking for the pier, to bank of the basins, with an open horizon that allows to imagine the river. People go for a walk, she practices sport walks or she sits down to take sun. Anchored in the Dike 1 it is the Corvette Uruguay.

They are denominated Port Viamonte 1 and II, Dock del Plata and City Port, and they harbor restaurants, some commercial local and offices. These they have become the meca of managers, executives, lawyers and people of the show. Some offices, modernly equipped, they are rent per hours. We recommend to make a high one in the Dock Cafe, in the Dock del Plata (Corrientes and A. M. de Justo), and to visit in the superior floor the Space of Art for plastic samples, with beautiful view to the basins.
The urban landscape is beautified in this tract for you tie them of the Yacht Club Port Madero. Recapturing the pedestrian walk.
In the Dike 3 are the Frigate Sarmiento.

It was built in 1897 by English navy, it was the ship badge of the Armed Argentina between 1899 and 1938. Equipped with 12 canyons and 35 candles, it conserves the furniture and the original design. Become ship school, between 1939 and 1961 it navigated 1.100.000 miles and in her they were formed naval cadets' of Guerra's Marina 39 promotions, today transformed into frigate museum.
In the Dike 3 are only three original wharehouses, since the one that was like finish off of the avenue Belgrano caught fire in 1991 and it was reconstructed.

Here it is the Campus of the Catholic University Argentina, at the moment the four warehouse are enabled: the Sacred building Tomás Moor (Dock 10), with the law schools and Economic Sciences, and in the new Dock 11, building San Great Alberto. The campus is the domestic more exclusive educational headquarters.

They are located in the last sector in recovery, among the avenues United States and Juan of Garay. There the docks Dike 1, Costa del Plata, Port Santa Plaza and Dock of del Sol are recycled. Their offer is of lofts and offices.
To the front of them, in the riverbank this of the dikes settled storage constructions and elaboration of cereals, because the ships discharged in the riverbank west their products and, in the east, they loaded wheat flour and other cereals.
In front of the Dike 3 the former Silo of the National Meeting of Grains, paymaster in 1903 and are declared today of Patrimonial Preservation . They highlight their telescopic pipes for the in bulk storage. Today it is used for exhibitions, for the attractive of their interior spaces. Next to this they are also the Floury Mills and Elevators of Grains (former Mills Rio de la Plata), declared of Patrimonial Preservation. Built in 1902, they are still in operations.
In front of the Dike 2 the Buenos Aires Mill are (former Mills Rio de la Plata) that it dates of 1891 and it is a valuable work to recover for new uses. It is declared of Patrimonial Preservation.

This type of buildings is born of high-technology proposals applied to the architecture. They are machines that work to wrap inhabitable spaces, with capacity of automating their processes and an infrastructure that it allows him to offer the maximum benefits in the fields of the air conditioning, illumination, mechanical circulation and computer science and telecommunications. They possess great flexibility to adapt to future changes. An intelligent building doesn't only have bigger grade of automatism, but rather it integrates its systems through a center of administration control that assures the interaction among them. These buildings save energy and operative costs in such a way that the biggest investment is redeemed in lapses that oscillate among three five years.
In the corner of Viamonte and Av. E. Madero, observe the imposing Torrre Bouchard.

Been founded by Bartolomé Mitre in 1870, under the motto The Nation will be a doctrine tribune, it has been sustained during 125 years informing and forming opinion. It is one of the main newspapers of the Argentina. In their building of 36.000 m2 that occupies half apple and it possesses three undergrounds, it plants it lowers and six superior floors, 1.000 people work in different shifts through the 24 hours. The company uses 2.500 paper rhyme monthly for newspapers, 200 paper rhyme stuccoed for the fascicles and the magazine of Sundays, around 25.000 kg of ink quarter note and 1.000 kg of color ink. It is distributed in the whole country and it arrives to almost all Latin America, USA and Europe.
The apple limited by the streets Tucumán, Bouchard, Viamonte and the avenue Timber is occupied by the Building Republic.

Its volumetric in prow form carries out a wide convex curve toward the river, opening the views toward Port Madero, the North Basin and the Ecological Reservation. In their last floors, two continuous balconies remember the traditional restaurants of the buildings of Buenos Aires. The basement evokes the old recovas of the sidewalk west of the avenue Alem. Good points to observe it are the corners of Viamonte and Bouchard, and of Av. Córdoba and Madero.
The external lining of this intelligent building consists on a system curtain wall , formed by units premolded that it contributes to the energy saving. It was designed alternating white bands of aluminum panels and different types of glasses (reflecting, opaque and printings) with camera of air that modulate the facade creating shades and reflections to emphasize the bends, the ochava or the changes of planes. Provided of heliport, it was projected by the architects Mario Roberto Alvarez and Associates, and Caesar Pelli and Associates.
By Bouchard, when arriving to Viamonte, you will see the Tower Fortabat.

With generous shade provided by older trees, where it highlights a great ombú (in Buenos Aires and surroundings appear ombúes in the most accidental places), this square is the last green haven of what was the old walk The Boulevard. Later, the avenues Leandro N. Alem and Walk Columbus was during a lot of time the official limit of the city. Dos blocks toward the river, the area was known as The First floor, where the port began. In the corner south west of the square it is the Luna Park.

The Mail of Buenos Aires occupied five different immovableses before this. The current building, inaugurated in 1928, is the Gallic architect's work Norbert Maillart. The facade for Sarmiento, adorned with four double columns that embrace three floors, finishes off in the bigger than the four domes that crown the building.
Through the living room of lost steps, of almost 100 m of longitude, you consents to the great living room of windows of attention to the public. The masonry particulars, floors, stuccos, cerramientos, screens and furniture continue conserving their elegance and solidity. Recently a restoration work was made that allows to see the low plant as when the palace was inaugurated.
The architectural conception of this work, with its circulations perimetrales, the contained vertical communications and the internal patios, allowed to vary the use of the local and to adapt them to the modern operative technological demands without affecting its style. In the low plant the Postal and Telegraphic Museum works.