In French contexts an hotel particulier is an urban "private house" italy and greece tours of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hotel particulier was often free-standing, and by the eighteenth
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite
Like many other hotels on the Avenida de Mayo, the Hotel Chile was once luxurious and the utmost in style. Designed by French architect Louis Dubois, this Art Nouveau hotel with Middle Eastern elements was opened in 1907. At present, the facade is the only clue to the building's former glory.
Buenos Aires architecture is characterized by its eclectic nature, with elements resembling Barcelona, Paris and Madrid. Italian and French influences increased after the declaration italy and greece tours of independence at the beginning of the 19th century, though the academic style persisted until the first decades of the 20th century.
Attempts at renovation took place during the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, when European influences penetrated into the country, reflected by several buildings of Buenos Aires such as the Iglesia Santa Felicitas by Ernesto Bunge; the Palace of Justice, the National Congress, and the Teatro Colon, all of them by Vittorio Meano.
The simplicity of the Rioplatense baroque style can be clearly seen in Buenos Aires through the works of Italian architects such as Andre Blanqui and Antonio Masella, in the churches italy and greece tours of San Ignacio, Nuestra Senora del Pilar, the Cathedral and the Cabildo.
The architecture of the second half of the 20th century continued italy and greece tours to reproduce French neoclassic models, such as the headquarters of the Banco de la Nacion Argentina built by Alejandro Bustillo, and the Museo Hispanoamericano de Buenos Aires of Martin Noel
Since the 1930s, the influence of Le Corbusier and European rationalism consolidated in a group of young architects from the University of Tucuman, among whom Amancio Williams stands out. The construction of skyscrapers proliferated italy and greece tours in Buenos Aires until the 1950s.
Newer modern high-technology buildings by Argentine architects in the last years of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st include the Le Parc Tower by Mario Alvarez, the Torre Fortabat by Sanchez Elia and the Repsol-YPF tower by Cesar Pelli.
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