23 June 2007

Other significant Recoleta constructions

The magnificent, unfinished, crumbling Facultad de Ingenieria (Engineering Faculty - not sure which university). Guidebooks tell us the building was originally intended for the Law Faculty, but was never completed. Evidently engineers are not so fussy about appearances...or maybe they're more romantic than the stereotype suggests?


The spectacular, no doubt soon to be crumbling National Library


The tourist must-see gigantic mechanical flower sculpture which guidebooks also tell us shuts its petals at night. Ooo-er.


And the little known, ephemeral, but equally profound performance art installation: Torre de Helado, Av Callao, Recoleta, 2007.

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