page_title: Catalinas Norte
section_title: The final draft
hierarchical_section_title: Catalinas Norte / History / The final draft
caption_attribution_description: Español: El "Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel", diseñado por los arquitectos Sánchez Elía, Peralta Ramos y Agostini (Estudio SEPRA) e inaugurado en 1972. Primer edificio del complejo Catalinas Norte, en el barrio de Retiro. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
context_page_description: Catalinas Norte is an important business complex composed of nineteen commercial office buildings, in two sections, and occupied by numerous leading Argentine companies, foreign subsidiaries, diplomatic offices, and a hotel. It is located in the Retiro and San Nicolás wards of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
context_section_description: The coup d'état that toppled President Arturo Illia in 1966 led to the dissolution of OPRBA. Mayor Eugenio Schettini instructed the Municipal Department of Architecture and Urbanism (MCBA) to design a new, simpler plan that would limit permits for office high rises. A municipal ordinance in 1967 parceled the land in accordance with the 1958 master plan, and lots were sold to Aerolíneas Argentinas, Conurban S.A, IBM, Impresit Sideco, Kokourek S.A, SEGBA (the state-owned city electric utility), Sheraton, and the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA). Retiro Park was bulldozed, and the Buenos Aires Japanese Gardens therein were relocated to their present, Palermo Woods location. The MCBA, in turn, retained four areas, opened three parking lots, and built two promenades: Carlos Della Paolera and Ingeniero Butty.
caption: The Sheraton Hotel was the first high rise in Catalinas Norte proper
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