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Techical Specifications:
National Historical Monument.
Location: 1370 Av. de Mayo
Opening: July 7th, 1923
Surface: 16,630 square meters
Height: 100 meters
Architect: Mario Palanti
Buses: 23, 39, 56, 60, 64, 86, 102, 105, 151, 168.
Subway: Line A, Sáenz Peña Station.
In 1918 Italian businessman Luis Barolo entrust to his compatriot Mario Palanti the design and construction of a building that would be - until the building of the Kavanagh in 1936- the tallest of Buenos Aires.
The buildings started in 1919 and finished in 1923. The ground plan has 32 meters front and 42 meters depth, with exits to Avenida de Mayo and Hipólito Yrigoyen, where a pedestrian narrow street with stores is located.
The Barolo was the first iron skeleton building and it is completed with a revolving headlight of 300,000 light bulbs, that in the period when the radio was not popular, it was used to transmit the news.
Both Palanti and Barolo were Dante's admirers, and there are references to the Comedy in the building, such as the general division of the project in three parts, which are matched with the hell, the purgatory, and the heaven from the book.
Besides the Palacio Barolo, Palanti built in Buenos Aires the "Hotel Castelar" (1928, 1150 Av. de Mayo), the "Banco Francés-Italiano" (at Perón and San Martín,) and the income house at the corner of Santa Fe and Callao.
The Palacio Salvo %u2014 in Montevideo, Uruguay- is a twin work of the Palacio Barolo.
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