Memorias: 26 de mayo de 2007

Puente de la Mujer, Purto Madero

Puente de la Mujer

Another image of Puente de la Mujer. The bridge by Santiago Calatrava at Puerto Madero. A night image this time. This is taken from the West Side (City Side). The tower on the left is the Hilton. The low building on the left houses the Dutch Embassy. Below the buildings on the back (middle-right) you find Holland Plaza dedicated to the Dutch Queen.

Puerto Madero South by night

A nice image of far south of Puerto Madero. Great lighting. Myself never went so far South. Most of the time i was in the area of the bridge and then North bound. The high buiding on the right of the picture is the Ministery of Defense.

A Fall day in Buenos Aires

Another movie for today!

Taken on June 6th 2007. That's D-Day (1944)isn't it? I made a round on foot through downtown. Started at Plaza de Mayo which was foggy. Special effects one could say! From there via Florida Street (didn't film because i already made a film there last April) to Túcuman. You will see the crossing with Leandro N. Alem and then straight towards Puerto Madero. Some Puerto Madero North side parts and then back towards Plaza de Mayo. You see a nice square in between with the Casa Rosada. And then the Plaza de Mayo again, now in bright sunshine, with fountains, the Cathedral and again the Casa Rosada.

Music is from the Pearl Harbor Soundtrack.

Sydney?

On the other side of Puerto Madero towards Retiro. It looks a bit like Sydney's Opera house. What is in the building i have no idea.

Holland Plaza

Because of the special ties with the Dutch Royal Family through Princess Maxima a plaza was created in honor of the Queen. It is situated in Puerto Madero near the bridge and basically next to the Dutch Embassy. 1. the Plaza itself. 2. Some pigeons nearby.

Puente de la Mujer 2

Puente de la Mujer which means Bridge of the Woman was designed by Santiago Calatrava. I did already another post here about it. Here are 2 images. 1. Taken from the Hilton Hotel terrace. 2. Just before Holland Plaza.

Puerto Madero

Very touristic. Many bars and restaurants.

Puerto Madero is a neighborhood, or barrio, of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, which occupies a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank.

History

In the 1930s, port facilities were relocated to the Puerto Nuevo ("new port"), 1 km to the north, and most of the older brick warehouses were all but abandoned. In the 1990s, local and foreign capitals invested in a massive gentrification effort, recycling the west side warehouses into lofts and restaurants, and adding some new hotels and office buildings, mostly in the east side. A new marina was built in the northernmost dock. In the 2000s the process continued, and more hotels, office and appartment buildings, both low rise and high rise have been built. Currently more buildings are under construction in the east side, including an office tower by Cesar Pelli and a mixed uses complex by Foster, the latter part of Faena's Porteño Art District. Recently, development has started in the last undeveloped part of the neighborhood, the east side of Dock 1, where infrastructure is been set and the first buildings are rising. According to current plans Dock 1 will not have high rises because of height limitations of about 20 storeys.

Transportation

The neighborhood's road network has been entirely rebuilt, especially in the east side. The layout of the east side consists currently on three wide boulevards running east-west crossed by east side's main street, Juana Manso Avenue. The layout is completed with some other avenues and minor streets, running both east-west and north-south, and by several pedestrian malls.

An expressway connecting the north and the south of the city trough Puerto Madero has long been in the planned stages. Several alternatives have been considered, including elevated, at-grade and underground, and even an underwater proposal by private developer Julio Torcello, which would had run under the four docks (this last proposal was dismissed as impossible to build. All proposals have received criticism: the elevated and at-grade options because they would mean a barrier between Puerto Madero and the rest of the city, and the underground because of the costs and the negative impacts during construction. Placing the expressway outside the city, between Puerto Madero and the Costanera Sur Natural Preserve has also been considered, but has received strong opposition from environmentalists. All the streets of Puerto Madero are named after women. The Puente de la Mujer (Women's Bridge), by architect Santiago Calatrava, is the newest link between east and west sides of Puerto Madero.

Currently a light rail line is being built alongside the west side's main street, Alicia Moreau de Justo Avenue, the Tranvía del Este, wich is planned to open later this year. But even after this effort is completed, the neighborhood will not be well connected to the city's transit network. Few bus lines run trough the neighborhood, and no subway line reaches it. Currently there are no official plans to extend the subway network to the neighborhood.

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Puente de la Mujer

And seems Chicago Spire is also a project from Calatrava says Wikipedia? On the background btw is the Dutch Embassy and the Hilton Hotel (where they are building a second tower)

"The Puente de la Mujer (Spanish for "Women's Bridge") is a footbridge in the Puerto Madero barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina that spans "dique 3" (dock 3). It is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unique in is asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with cables suspending a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees in order to allow water traffic to pass. When it swings to allow watercraft passage the far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.

It was designed by Santiago Calatrava and is similar to his Puente del Alamillo and Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay, but with a forward, rather than a reverse angled cantilever, as is seen in those bridges. The footbridge was donated by Don Alberto L. Gonzalez to the City of Buenos Aires in thanks for 60 years of work in the country. Started in 1998, it was completed on 20 December 2001."

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