Galerias Pacificos in Buenos Aires
23 Jan
Here’s another building that was designed to resemble the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. The building was constructed in 1891 but the current mall only dates back to 1992. It was the major shopping galleria in Buenos Aires, until the 1960s, when the building was taken over by the state-run railroad offices and fell into disuse and disrepair. In the early 1990s it was awarded to a private company as part of the overall privatization drive in Argentina and in 1992 it reopened in its current form, including the amazing glass ceilings and the restored murals.
Galerias Pacifico in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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