Buenos Aires is a city flat in the middle of an endless plain with just a coastal canyon as one drop. However, it is also a city of buildings from where all the tours in Buenos Aires start to the rest of the tourist attractions that this amazing country offers.
According to the latest official survey, more than 15,000 buildings over ten floors and nearly 2000 more than 15. Many of the higher floors have great views.
In recent times you are taking a trend of different options – gastronomic, cultural, festive – to exploit them.
Dry Martini take a relaxed listening to a DJ consecrated nadarse laps in a heated pool, enjoy a meal after traveling first museum, dancing until dawn, or simply learn more about the genesis of the city architectural promoting adrenaline and vertigo, it is now possible.
“View the city from above is critical to understanding the place one lives and freedom that one has” says the architect Nestor Zakim, technical advisor of the Heritage and Historical Institute Buenos Aires, which has a program – “viewpoints of Buenos Aires” to visit key points with city views.
A new option to enjoy Buenos Aires from above. Without the magnitude of what is happening in Hong Kong, New York or Chicago – to name a few cities where we frequently take advantage be fifty, one hundred, two hundred meters of asphalt to hang out with broad vistas – the Capital seems to be realizing that proceed with the floor is not necessarily the norm. Let us go.
Elevator drinks:
After The Living Room, 21th floor, Av Corrientes 327
On the 21st floor of a building located on Avenida Corrientes 327, different Wednesday of each month, the German (a cultural and business club that has 157 years) Club is organizing Living Buenos Aires, an after office from 6pm to 12pm. “It’s good to have a drink while watching Cologne, the Obelisk, Puerto Madero Ecological Reserve and the whole city,” explains responsible for these events, Charly Schlotmann. From exhibitions to learn about other cultures, spend some time surrounded by strangers, listening to music of different DJs and wines to taste from olive oils, Living Buenos Aires or any proposal of the German Club is a good excuse to escape the maelstrom of street, rise and enjoy. “This is for people to know, a good time and leave the shrink city” specifies Schlotmann.
Another unavoidable point is the Hotel Pulitzer in Maipú 907. Unlike the viewpoints that offer more than anything panoramic views, the terrace bar of the hotel is a trendy and relaxed with a proposal of drinks and exquisite and original dishes. Vanessa Gomez Fernandez, Sales Manager, explains that the terrace was intended “to enjoy a relaxed environment, to have a drink and listen to good music.”
Located on the 13th floor of this hotel which has offices in Barcelona and Paris, we can find the Sky Bar a privileged bar offers many options, drinks with green tea, coconut water and fresh cucumber. This bar has a unique view to drink and see the city that emerges to, and from, everywhere.
In the last summer season in the Pulitzer, Thursday at the Sky bar was the cycle of DJs and bands High on the Roof. This hotel already has tradition in his interest in music since the Catalan headquarters is one of the unavoidable spaces Sonar, one of the most important festivals in the world. The Buenos Aires meeting proposed by the Estamos Felices seal.
“As a place to drink and listen to good music, which have a program to get around town early, as in Berlin or New York,” says Martin Market, the person behind it. “Also touched DJs like Carlos Alfonsín, Gustavo Lamas, Maxi Trusso, among others, and one, meanwhile, could see Buenos Aires,”
Prince sky
The viewpoint of Antoine de Saint Exupery, Guemes Gallery, 14th floor, 165 Florida
Located in downtown San Martin 170, Guemes Gallery Building keeps one of the best kept secrets of Buenos Aires. This is the only viewpoint with a view 360 in the downtown area. And on the sixth floor of this building he lived the celebrated author of the “Petit Prince” Antoine de Saint Exupery who, as an aviator, safe squeezed out juice to the remarkable view (Uruguay Up!) Of Guemes.
In 1929 he wrote there Night Flight. Now you can see from above projections with images of the city, but for access to the terrace on the 14th floor will have to wait a few weeks because it’s getting value for the summer. For a night view of the city, where you can watch the game of domes that are in Diagonal Norte and Florida to Cologne lights, across the river.
Relax on July 9
Spa and Hotel cafe Pan, July 9, Carlos Pellegrini 551, piso 23
The Hotel Pan is another point that is worth visiting for a good time watching Buenos Aires from above. Located on July 9, opposite the Teatro Colón and the Obelisk, one can climb up to the 23rd floor where the spa and pool to relax and recognize the banks of the Rio de la Plata and any privileged view of the North-South corridor are Buenos Aires. “We must understand that there are geographical communion with the suburbs, and realize the metropolitan city we live as neighbors, and for which we manage as city government,” he says Zakim understanding the perspective that their function requires.
The former confectionery ACA, the city from the first Rationalist building
Headquarters of the Argentine Automobile Club, 9th floor, Av. Libertador 1850
The terrace area of cars ACA Club Argentino de Libertador and Tagle is one of the strategic places. This building has great architectural value, because besides being the first Rationalist building in Buenos Aires, with the typical architectural purity of this style, you can climb to the 9th floor, which was formerly confectionery ACA, a landmark and in a characteristic corner of the city. Today if you are a member, or sign up for the program Viewpoints you can upload to see everything that can encompass Buenos Aires.
Gastronomy and art, from above
San Telmo Terrace MACBA, San Juan 328.
MACBA -Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires opened its doors on September 1. This new project located on Avenida San Juan 328 has its icing on the cake: a terrace with a spectacular view of San Telmo.
The opening day, the curator of the exhibition “Global Exchange. Geometric abstraction since 1950 “gave a symposium on the terrace, where guests were absorbed. “We want to use the balcony as a place dedicated to gastronomy in the museum,” says Artistic Director of MACBA, Maria Jose Herrera, adding, “We want people to come and enjoy this space, the 4 whole plants different samples and also the terrace with its spectacular view”.
This Museum opened a month ago, the terrace is not finished, but be careful, go to meet him and climb to the top, to admire the historical south of Buenos Aires.
The architecture is an important part of the historical record of a place. In Buenos Aires there are certain views that help us understand the genesis of the city. Zakim, who speaks hurry while leaving uncovered his devotion architectural styles that inhabit Buenos Aires since early twentieth century, that “see the city from above it is critical to understanding the place one lives and freedom that one has” as opposed to pedestrians walking the streets and watching clogged.
In addition, Zakim stresses the fundamental importance to know Buenos Aires from another place, because “from above one can see that immigration that populated Buenos Aires and the melting pot that is drawn in architecture”.
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