I'm a big fan of the alternative Tube map, so I though it would be fun to (badly) translate the station names of the Buenos Aires Subte system into English. This is what the Buenos Aires Undergr looks like (click ...
Fantastic photo tweeted by Commander Chris Hadfield and taken from the International Space Station of the River Plate emptying into the ocean. Buenos Aires can clearly be seen on the bottom bank of the river, as can Montevideo near where ...
Well, if you're going to cover the front of the cathedral in scaffolding, you might as well do it with style!
In the 1920's two horses and one teacher undertook a mammoth journey and their exploits made them unlikely celebrities all over the world. Aimé Tschiffely, born in Berne, Switzerland had been working as a teacher in Buenos Aires and aged ...
Last week, the Buenos Aires city government approved the transfer of ownership of the Buenos Aires Subte system to them from the national government. The process has taken over a year and left the system in a state of limbo ...
I got a request the other day from a client who wanted to visit Eva Perón's office in the CGT Building in San Telmo. I was aware that Evita had had an office there, after all it was famously where ...
I came across this blog post yesterday which looks at stereotypes of each US State based on typing "Why is {State} so" into Google and seeing what comes up on the autocomplete. It's fun little idea and I decided to ...
Buenos Aires is often compared to other cities around the world. Many a guidebook waxes lyrical about the "Paris of the South". Puerto Madero is Manhattan (at least to those who have never been to Manhattan) and the leafy parks ...
It probably won't come of any great surprise that I hold somewhat of a fascination with the humble Buenos Aires colectivo. They are everywhere, speeding down the wide avenues of Palermo and clogging the narrow streets of Microcentro, yet to ...
One of the most important and historic pieces of urban architecture in Buenos Aires is perhaps also one of the most overlooked, the Puente Transbordador del Riachuelo in La Boca. First proposed in 1908 to provide a much needed link between ...
