Galerías Pacífico (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

 Galerias Pacifico is a shopping mall located in the main streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Is one of my favorites places. The outside looks like a normal shopping on the streets of Buenos Aires but on the inside is very different, looks like a Cathedral. The story is very fascinating, it was built back in 1888. It served as museum, school of arts, others.
The inside of the mall is very well organized toward consumers consumption. You will not find one stair that goes up next to a one that goes down between two same floors; it force you to go around all the stores to get to your desire stair, so probably you will buy something.
I really like the shopping style and strategy.  In the inside, look the picture (the ceiling decoration) it was inspired in Galerias from Europe. The mall is perfect to sit and drink an espresso next to the fountain or eat a cheese sandwich with a coffee.

The Mall is spectacular and is one of my favorites at Argentina. I love going there to shopping and eat.

Bourbon Hotel (Luque, Paraguay) (3/3)

One last addition made to Luque by Dr. Leoz was the Bourbon Conmebol Convention Hotel finished by the end of 2011. This building was the last cutting edge style at Luque. It add up to CONMEBOL Headquarters and it's museum, the combination of all three are known as CONMEBOL Complex (Headquarters, Museum and Hotel). All cutting edge style inspired many Paraguayan architects and it allowed expansion into further lands (Luque) from the capital of Paraguay.

Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay is having space problems causing urban sprawl to happen. The Conmebol Complex is located at Luque (the next top attraction) is the airport (7 mins away). People liked the idea of moving towards Luque, so did the urban sprawl began in 2013.

The cutting edge and vanguardist style of the Conmebol brought new ideas for the development of the capital in Paraguay. It also brought tourism.

The Conmebol Complex(reaction and opinion 1 to 3):
Personally I think that Dr. Leoz did a great job and had a great vision towards the development of Luque. I'm happy, it's a nice place and different. Many people says that the Conmebol Complex doesn't look like Paraguay due to it's architectonic style, it's more like Europe. Nowadays Paraguay is making newer building with cutting edge style and more vanguardist rather than colonial or neoclassical style.

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Conmebol Museum: South American Museum of Soccer (Luque, Paraguay) (2/3)

Following the cutting edge of the CONMEBOL and modernizing Paraguay, Dr. Leoz started the development of the Museum of South American Soccer, finished in 2009. The cutting edge of this building is even better than the one of CONMEBOL. Looking the front entrance there are fountains everywhere, specially a fountain that dance to the rhythm of the music. As well you will find a front wall that covers the front of the building with a very vanguardist style. In the inside the roof looks like its hanging from the windows (very nice effects). At the far end you will find a soccer ball, is very different compared to the one at the CONMEBOL fountain. The ball is the first real 360 degrees theater that works only for the museum, showing the history of soccer.

This brings more tourisms to Paraguay, it is also used as a convention center. In addition to the CONMEBOL this building adds more towards the home of soccer, not only the offices are there but a museum of South American Soccer!.

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Conmebol (Luque, Paraguay) (1/3)

Paraguay is country with characteristics of colonial architecture and neoclassical. In 1988 CONMEBOL open their headquarters in Paraguay under the presidency of Nicolas Leoz. This brought a new style of architectonic style to Paraguay, a cutting edge style. This started a new beginning of ideas and specially expansion to Paraguay.

The CONMEBOL is a great example of breaking the routine and innovation. I went many time to Conmebol and was fun. The building is still the only one of it's kind. 

In the front you can find a really big fountain with a huge tower holding a soccer ball which gives a touch to the building. The lot is surrounded by flags of the South American Soccer Affiliated countries making CONMEBOL feel like the house of soccer.

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