Boom in the remodeling of historic buildings: from El Cabildo to Confitería del Molino

Boom in the remodeling of historic buildings: from El Cabildo to Confitería del Molino

The common denominator is that all these spaces have formal and spatial architectural characteristics that stand out and that is why their remodeling is strict and under different standards previously defined for each place.

Currently, the remodeling of the classical European building is taking place, the Paris Stock Exchange, a circular, glass-domed structure, based on his renovation of the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana, both in Venice, created by Francois Pinault —founder of Kering (formerly the Gucci Group)— and winner of the Pritzker Prize Tadao Ando.

In turn, the mansion Fine Arts of the Frick, in the Upper East Side of ManhattanIt enters the last two years of a renovation.

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José Aizpun, President of Servas, one of the companies involved in the remodeling of El Molino Confectionery, tells how they are participating in such an outstanding café:“In any work to update historic buildings, there is a compromise between satisfying the service needs that are intended for the resulting work and maintaining the architectural features of the architecture and arts in force at the time of construction. Harmonizing both requirements requires a great deal of work collaboration between architects and specialists in historic preservation and engineers and architects who must provide the new technical solutions that are equally required”.

And he adds: “No less important is to provide a high engineering design and project that allows adding the necessary additional equipment to supply the required vertical transport services without affecting either the building in terms of its functionality or its supporting structures. in order to ensure operation without adding stress or vibration to the original building structure that could compromise its stability. For this reason, Ascensores Servas, working together with renowned structural engineers, as well as conservation experts, is implementing the manufacture and installation of three new elevators that will be supported by a metal load-bearing structure, also manufactured and calculated by the same company. according to the latest technologies and that will be independent of the structure of the building, thus allowing them to supply the services required in the Nuevo El Molino. The elevators will be Gearless Without Machine Room. Two of them will respect the façade of shields and doors according to the original architectural design, maintaining a harmonic car design. A third large elevator will supply the traffic of the building for events and with access even to the rooftops”.

The recovery work was possible through a collaboration agreement between the National Congress, through the building’s administrative Commission, and Rio Santiago Shipyard, Agency dependent on the Ministry of Production of the Province of Buenos Aires with the aim of, in addition to this piece, recovering the original marquee of the historic building.

Rio Santiago Shipyard, has also intervened in emblematic spaces such as the roof of the Ciudad de La Plata Single Stadium, the marquee of the Teatro Argentino, the replicas of the historic crosses of the basilica of Luján, the manufacture of parts for hydroelectric plants such as Yacyretá, Los Reyunos, Salto Grande and Tocoma.

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