Thanks for the details on García, that’s some good architectural info.

The building was designed by my 2nd favorite Art Nouveau architect in Buenos Aires – Julián García Núñez. Born in Argentina & studied architecture in Barcelona under one of the Holy Trinity of modernisme there… not Gaudí, not Puig i Cadafalch, but Domenech i Montaner. Genius.

García won acclaim for building the Spanish pavilion for the BA expo (I remember you did a post about that a long time ago in a barrio not so far away), built lots of apartment buildings & most notably the Hospital Español. Whoever decided to demolish most of that hospital should be serving life imprisonment. However, there are beautiful examples of his architecture that remain: one apt bldg in San Telmo, one in Caballito, a few in the Microcentro, a couple more in Almagro. I’ve got lots of pix of his work scatter around my blog.

Of course, if you’d like an overview tour, let me know :) Thanks for the tip.

I remember the Margarita Xirgu theater was very active in the eighties; I attended at Fo’s “Muerte accidental de un anarquista” there. The architecture worth the visit; it looks like a toy-sized Colón theatre.