Bouchard Plaza
Bouchard Plaza is an architecturally significant office building in the San Nicolás ward of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Overview
The site of the building, on 557 Bouchard Street, was originally occupied by the printing house of La Nación. The daily newspaper, founded by President Bartolomé Mitre, remains among the most widely circulated in Argentina.
The company contracted SEPRA Arquitectos for the design of new editorial offices in 1960, while retaining its Plateresque Florida Street headquarters. Inaugurated in 1969, the drab, two-story building (with three underground floors) was enlarged by the addition of four floors to the existing building, and La Nación relocated its headquarters to this new structure upon its completion in 1979. Flanked by leafy Roma Square to the south, the building's shipping and receiving department was shifted to the opposite, Eduardo Madero Avenue side.[1]
The publisher was joined by industrial conglomerate
La Nación relocated its printing house to the southern
References
- ^ Summa (March 1981): Edificio Diario "La Nación," Bouchard 557. pp. 31/38.
- ^ La Nación: Se hará una torre en La Nación (in Spanish)
- ^ La Nación: Un rascacielos diferente Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ La Nación: oficinas de Techint en Bouchard Plaza (in Spanish)
- ^ PWC Argentina: Nuestras oficinas
- ^ La Nación: IRSA acordó la adquisición de la torre Bouchard Plaza (in Spanish)
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