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FOTOGALERÍA | CARACAS 445

A city profile


On the occasion of the 445th anniversary of Caracas, El Universal makes a balance of the buildings that compose the city architectonic heritage and changed its nature in the past 60 years

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Aula Magna: “This is Caracas’ heart, the most admired thing in the world we have, the most gorgeous…” Hannia Gómez, the president of NGO Fundamemoria, spares no superlatives to refer to the main auditorium (2,700 seats) of the Campus of the Central University of Venezuela, inaugurated inn December 1953 after 15 months of construction
Aula Magna: “This is Caracas’ heart, the most admired thing in the world we have, the most gorgeous…” Hannia Gómez, the president of NGO Fundamemoria, spares no superlatives to refer to the main auditorium (2,700 seats) of the Campus of the Central University of Venezuela, inaugurated inn December 1953 after 15 months of construction Torre El Universal: Sketched and erected by Francisco Pimentel, Bernardo Borges and George W. Wilkie in the late sixties, it became the headquarters of daily newspaper El Universal. The authors were awarded the national prize of architecture for considering the tower the most important piece of work at that time Humboldt Hotel: This circular tower of 60 meters in height (14 floors) was built on a mounting located at 2,100 meters above sea level. Designed by architect Tomás José Sanabria, it was erected in as few as seven months and opened in November 1956 After the death of General Juan Vicente Gómez in 1935, fast replacement of houses with buildings would begin with the oil boom. However, the fifties would be surely the decade marked by outstanding constructions. The buildings erected under the government of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez have endured the test of time and they are thus far renowned as the city symbols. Some of them would be a combination of viewpoints, offices, cinemas and parking lots, such as Torre Polar (1954) Taking distance from the building frenzy under the dictatorship of Pérez Jiménez, as soon as he took office, President Rómulo Betancourt promised to stop making “reinforced concrete” policy. In the sixties, the main recreation site in the capital city –Parque del Este- was inaugurated. Later, the government of President Hugo Chávez, renamed it after independence hero Francisco de Miranda Torre Easo: One of the icons of Francisco de Miranda Avenue, it was also one of the preferred works of architect Gustavo Guinand. It was built in 1951. Together with Torre Europa and Atlantic Building in the nearby, it is an example of the prevailing refined architecture at that time El Silencio towers: The two buildings that shape Centro Simón Bolívar completed the whole residential compound figured out by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva for El Silencio development. The towers were inaugurated in 1954. They are a token of operational and monumental architecture. Today, they are the venue ot ministries and government agencies El Helicoide: While its construction started in 1956, the works would stop after the overthrow of the government of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez. The first stage was eventually opened in 1961. It would never be completed. Its architects Jorge Romero, Pedro Neuberger and Dirk Bornhorst envisaged a mall, a parking lot, a showroom, a five-star hotel and an arena for large shows. It would be used for none of the above. Instead, it operated as the political police head offices. The aluminum dome was built in 1982
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