This photograph was taken in January of this year. This day, we decided to photograph landscapes with the dawn illumination, forcing us to get up early and go by bike in the dark until the Puerto Madero district, about 10km away from where we live.
Getting there, the city still was waking, few cars were on the streets, a peace only seen on weekends at this time. This day, we took some beautiful photographs which will be shown in future posts.
Particularly on this picture, the sun starts showing itself behind the new buildings of Puerto Madero, illuminating slowly their silhouettes and one of the postcards of Buenos Aires, the “Puente de la Mujer” (Bridge of the Woman), work of the architect Calatrava, which I also will detail more soon…
The history of Puerto Madero is quite interesting. Back to mid XIX century two engineers, Eduardo Madero and Luis Huergo, tried to make concrete the dream of the habitants of this port city to finally have a port to communicate with the world. Each architect presented several projects to the government, and the chosen one was Madero’s. The construction begun at April 1st, 1887 and finished at March 31st, 1898, 5 years later Madero’s death. Everybody celebrated the sea traffic opening.
Between 1900 and 1905 warehouses of red brick were constructed by Wayss & Freytag using a project of the architect Charles Hawkshaw. These warehouses stored tons of grains that were exported, and they have three or four stages with cellar.
However, in the beginning of XXth century, the boats had increased their size and Puerto Madero was insufficient, leading it to a premature disposal only 10 years later your opening. For the half past century, the abandon situation made the red brick lose their color and the rats took place of the warehouses.
In November 1989, the president Carlos Menen signed a decree to recycle all the 170 hectares of the port. After this huge change, Puerto Madero was reopened on the year 2000, and today this is one of the most valued area of Buenos Aires, with buildings of great multinationals and where rich tourists live. Some particular universities are there with many restaurants and craze bars side by side, fighting for the tourists’ attention, next to cinemas and offices. Puerto Madero’s night-life is away from monotony.
sepphora | 11:50 am | Puerto Madero
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