#Obelisk Buenos Aires

[sheliach]

2024 - Buenos Aires Por Flickr: Night view of the Obelisco from an UBER ride on Av. Corrientes. The obelisco is located in Plaza de la República, at the intersection of Corrientes and 9 de Julio avenues, San Nicolás neighbourhood.

[louisupdates]

Another video of the awesome Louis Tomlinson: Live at the Buenos Aires Obelisk project. Thanks to Argentinian Louies and awayinarg [13.9.2024]

Louis in Argentina earlier this year.

[fotosdebuenosaires]

9 de Julio Ave. - Aerial North to South

[piensamcfly]

Obelisco, CABA | Argentina.

35 mm. Olympus Stylus.

[lasbabys]

Lali in Buenos Aires

[pav-anne]

"the sky, the day and the frame" by pavane lenoir, 2024

[zerotoningraphy]

[kafkasapartment]

Obelisco y Diagonal Norte, c. 1951-1952. Grete Stern Gelatin silver print.

Obelisk of Buenos Aires, Argentina, along with the bustling Diagonal Norte Avenue.

[eopederson]

Manifestación en el obelisco, Buenos Aires, 2022.

¡Argentina gana la Copa América 2022!

The demonstration pictured was actually a worker demand for more rights and higher wages. Today the vastness of the open area around the Obelisk is likely to be even more crowded with people celebrating yesterday's victory over Colombia in the Copa América. Not a place to be if you do not like crowds!

[transit-fag]

Can you do the california dreamin'with a pic of the Buenos Aires Obelisk? Pls

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[fatehbaz]

Nordelta, one of Buenos Aires’s most exclusive areas, is a conglomerate of gated communities with over 50,000 residents. It sits on the wetlands of the River Paraná, second only to the Amazon in South America. And it was built by emptying and refilling canals, which [...] reduced the wetlands’ capacity to absorb rainfall. Nordelta opened in 2001, right when the economy collapsed after a decade of extreme neoliberal adjustments. In 2001, Argentina had five presidents in the span of 11 days, police killed 39 citizens during protests, and personal bank accounts were frozen [...]. Nordelta’s main attraction for consumers was [...] a distinguished, United States lifestyle. [...] Master-planned communities (MPCs) are privately built and designed neighborhoods in the city outskirts constructed by large-scale developers, offering amenities, services, and rules through homeowner associations. [...]

While driving through the main road to the conglomerate, [...] to the right, malls, apartments, and private schools with English names that are only accessible by car. [...] Over 8,000 workers cross these gates daily to provide multiple services. [...] These workers cannot walk on the avenues because “Nordelta residents do not want to see them around,” [...]. This segregationist structure of Nordelta emerged alongside the expansion of the neoliberal state. While Nordelta today resembles Miami, it was initially thought of as the French ville nouvelles (“new towns”), which aimed to integrate rural migrants within European cities.

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In 1977, engineer Julián Astolfoni acquired the first plot of land from the descendants of [...] a general who had obtained the lands previously peopled by Guaraníes and Carupás after fighting in the “Desert Campaign against the Indians.” When Astolfoni got the plot, Nordelta was conceptualized to fix the problem of undesired urban sprawl at a time when the [...] state of the last civic-military dictatorship was trying to “eradicate” the villas miseria (shantytowns) for being “filthy” spaces threatening private property and national moralities.  

The project goals shifted once it was finally approved in 1992 when Astolfoni partnered with businessmen [EC] and other North American corporations, [...] including [...] a U.S. real estate specialized in MPCs. [...] Nordelta retained the enduring idea of the desert as a space to be filled. Like every pioneer narrative, it positioned Astolfoni and [EC], the engineer-corporate duo, as heroes saving “neglected” environments and conquering a wetland that would remain otherwise “vast, useless, dangerous, and vacant.” They would do this by emulating the U.S. MPCs of the 1960s, the ones that turned public malls into consumption centers [...].

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In the 1990s, president Carlos Menem’s government extended neoliberal measures and promoted Miami as a tourist destination for middle-class families [...]. Despite its diversity, Miami became a symbol of whiteness and economic success [...]. The neoliberal reconfiguration of white exceptionalism as a desire to emulate western geographies became Nordelta’s mark, offering global lifestyles to the elites who can now “live like in Miami, but a few miles away from the Buenos Aires Obelisk,” as an Argentinian newspaper with connections to Nordelta claimed. [...]

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In 2001, when the machines were opening the soil, a woman [...] found ceramic pieces and bones. The finding led to an organized movement [...]. A team of archaeologists who had been working in the area before visited the place, corroborated the existence of an ancestral site, and registered it as the Punta Canal archaeological site. [...] Despite protests [...], the company sent excavators and destroyed a significant portion of the site. [...]  [T]he organized group of neighbors and Indigenous peoples constituting the Movimiento en Defensa de la Pacha Mama set out to protect the archaeological remains and the Indigenous cemetery [...]. [T]heir organization pushed for the recognition of the land, now named Punta Querandí, as communitarian in 2020 [...]. Furthermore, [...] the movement achieved the return and reburial of 42 bodies from ancestors whom an archaeologist from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had exhumed in 1925. [...]

[T]his long, complex, and well-documented story of the emergence of Punta Querandí [is told] in the museum, el Museo Autónomo de Gestión Indígena, which also has a digital archive. Despite the developers’ representation of the area as wild and rural, Punta Querandí has “made visible that the reality of Indigenous Peoples also occurs in Buenos Aires,” [...]. [T]he desegregationist project of Punta Querandí, a land not attached to geneticized or archaeologized visions of Indigeneity, but rather a Territory where Guaraní, Qom, Colla, Moqoit, or Aymara Peoples, among many others, can reunite [...].

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Punta Querandí and its desegregationist project shows the power of edges. [...]

Exemplified by Nordelta, MPCs generate profit by transforming rural into elite lands while rearticulating racial and spatial borders that make distinctions sharper, more guarded, and less porous -- between centers and peripheries, grounded and flooded land [...]. MPCs originated in the U.S. and continue to circulate American imaginaries of race, segregation, and neoliberal commons worldwide. [...]  By selling reductionist archetypes, such as the fantasy of white Miami, in order to profit from them, real estate developments obscure how environments continue to be complex, multiple, and diverse despite the violence enacted upon them.

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Text by: Mara Dicenta. “The Violence of Gated Communities in Buenos Aires’s Wetlands.” Edge Effects. 20 April 2023. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[sheliach]

Esmeralda ~ Arenales

[louisupdates]

Fans organized a project to promote LOUIS TOMLINSON: LIVE at the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, Argentina. via awayinarg

This ad ran every 15-20 minutes all day, on 13 Sep 2024, thanks to the effort of the fans.

Thank you, Argentina Louies!!

[juju-or-anya]

My most argento headcanon is that Theo is not a soccer fan but Eloise breaks the McDonald's at the Obelisk in Buenos Aires along with the other fans celebrating that Messi brought the cup home.

[existentialterror]

Apparently a famous Argentinian twitch streamer (ElSpreen) is spending 24 hours streaming from the top of the giant obelisk in Buenos Aires. Not the way I would have expected for stylites to come back but it's nice to keep old tradition alive.

[vonpinguinenzulamas]

Buenos Aires, 01.01.24

Die Boeing 747 war voll besetzt. Wir sind um 22:15 Uhr mit leichter Verspätung gestartet. Die ersten Turbulenzen fingen über der nordspanischen Küste an, aber so richtig los ging es, als wir östlich der Kanaren flogen. Wir hatten über dem Atlantik so heftige und langanhaltende Turbulenzen, wie ich es bisher auf meinen zahlreichen Flügen noch nie erlebt habe. Wir wurden so durchgerüttelt und geschüttelt, dass an Schlafen nicht zu denken war; erst über Südamerika ließ es nach. Wir waren froh, als wir um kurz vor 8 Uhr pünktlich in Buenos Aires landeten. Die Paßkontrolle absolvierten wir zügig, nur das Gepäck ließ ewig auf sich warten. Mit Uber ging es dann zum Hotel in der Innenstadt. Wegen Neujahr war wenig los auf der Straße. Glücklicherweise konnten wir nach einer halben Stunde Wartezeit um 10:30 Uhr auf das Zimmer, wo wir erstmal ausruhten.

Gegen Mittag habe ich einen kleinen Erkundungssparziergang zum Obelisken, dem Wahrzeichen von Buenos Aires gemacht bei sommerlichen 27 Grad. Dieser 67,5m hohe Obelisk wurde 1936 in nur einem Monat von deutschen Firmen erbaut.

Am späten Nachmittag sind wir durch die Fußgängerzone gegangen und haben in der Lavallestraße ein Restaurant gefunden, wo wir draußen gegessen haben.