So, here I am in Buenos Aires

[fivemack]

This full-block building, clearly designed by someone who thought Keble College lacked only balustraded turrets, is apparently the headquarters of the water board

I went to see Evita in the Recoleta cemetery: if you are well-loved after your death, your friends will get bronze plaques made and bolted to your large marble tomb.

This may be the daftest-looking Owl Symbolising the Contemplation of Mortality ever committed to stone.

I am now off to the main cathedral to see if anything attractively pontifical is going on, this sunny St-Patrick's-day morning.

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Comments

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Yes. I'm not that convinced by Keble in it original incarnation. I'm even less convinced of it in that one.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

According to Wikipedia, it's not a headquarters but a water pumping station; there's a museum inside. The company would still have been British-owned when it was built.

It's not that much more ornate than e.g. the sewage pumping station at Abbey Mills


Or Green Lanes water pumping station, a castle from which you could probably hold off a moderately-sized Norman invasion.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Are they getting a new Cardinal?