Galerías Pacífico
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Façade and main entrance of Galerías Pacífico | |
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Location | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Coordinates | 34°35′57″S 58°22′29″W / 34.59917°S 58.37472°W |
Address | Florida St. and Córdoba Avenue |
Opening date | 18 May 1992[1] |
Architect | Juan C. López & Assoc.[2] |
No. of stores and services | 150 [3] |
Total retail floor area | 11,200 m2 (121,000 sq ft) [3] |
No. of floors | 3 |
Website | galeriaspacifico.com.ar |
Galerías Pacífico is a shopping centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located at the intersection of Florida Street and Córdoba Avenue.
Overview
[edit]The Beaux Arts building was designed by the architects Emilio Agrelo and Roland Le Vacher in 1889 to accommodate a shop called the Argentine Bon Marché, modelled on the Le Bon Marché in Paris.
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In 1896 part of the building was transformed into the first home for the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and in 1908 the British-owned Buenos Aires and Pacific railway company acquired part of the building for offices. The company's name derived from the fact that its intention was to operate a train service linking Buenos Aires and Valparaíso in Chile, thereby giving access to the Pacific Ocean. From that time onwards the building became known as Edificio Pacífico.
Torture chamber
[edit]In 1987, a film crew uncovered an abandoned torture center in the basement of the building that had been used during the Dirty War.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Historia del shopping
- ^ Galerías Pacífico (the book)
- ^ a b Overview at official website Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Klein, Naomi (2007). The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. MacMillan. p. 115.
External links
[edit] Media related to Galerías Pacífico at Wikimedia Commons