architecture

Palace of Running Waters

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Palacio de Aguas Corrientes [Spanish]

Gran Depósito Ingeniero Guillermo Villanueva [Spanish]

Museo del Agua y de la Historia Sanitaria [Spanish]

Museo del Agua [Spanish]

full/alternative names

Engineer Guillermo Villanueva Large Repository, Museum of Water and the History of Sanitation, Museum of Water

built

1887-1894

culture

Argentine

style/period

Eclecticism

work type by function

water pumping station, museum

material

brick, cast iron, terracotta

technique

masonry

architect

Olaf Boye, Carlos Nyströmer

height

21.0 m

stories (above ground)

local language location name

Buenos Aires, Argentina [Spanish]