I don't know where to start...amazing place, kind of familiar – I could easily imagine I was in southern Europe. To be more exact it reminded me of Greece. The relaxed atmosphere and street bars, Buenos has culture on one hand and a kind of chaotic rush on the other.
I could call it a forgotten piece of Europe, somewhere miles away on a new continent, but still so similar, with all of the beautiful ornamental fin de siecle houses. The only thing that was different was that the streets or avenues were incredibly long and at right angles to each other. It is as if Buenos was building up a kind of net in its particular logic – it was quite normal to find building numbers around 7000-8000 and to describe the address one needs to name the crossing of the streets. I must say this was a courageous architectural project with a huge amount of fantasy, which resulted in never ending straight streets with a feeling of having enough living space. Everything is so huge with unlimited amounts of urbanized land. Down town the buildings are high-rise, busy and huge. Outside of the centre are quite old style patio houses, which remind me of Cortazar, or Maarquez, where you feel the hot afternoon sun....
Absolute mixture of cultures
In Buenos, I had this feeling people are relaxed and feel free to express themselves and very open to everything that should or could happen, believing that impossible exists...they were very open minded; 'no' never existed...
In every place, where I feel like somebody tried to create something new in order to inspire others, mixing, trying out, putting different styles together (things in a new style together. I feel so happy and so much at home – it makes me really want to be useful and to do as well similar and creative things).
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