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The Building “Otto Wulf”, Buenos Aires

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In his office ran the legation of Austria-Hungary until its dissolution in 1918.

This presence is reflected in its forms and meanings: the highest dome, crowned by a sun, represents the image of Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria, while the juvenile has a crown and a moon (now lost) that symbolize the figure of Empress (SISSI) Elizabeth, Queen of Bavaria, Austria.

Each of the brackets anthropomorphic colossus was made in the image and likeness of those who built the site (the blacksmith, the mason, the carpenter, the architect). At its base and top are figures of Argentina fauna, such as condors, penguins, bears, owls, and even the local population, such as chiefs and Indians. This sort of tribute to the local culture, Rönnow also practiced with one of the last examples of civil architecture of the eighteenth century had to be demolished to lift his work, Virreina Old House, before making a thorough survey then gave School of Architecture building.

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