The building in the corner of Gaona Avenue and Biedma Street

When Gaona Avenue meets the triangle formed by Nicasio Oroño and Biedma Streets, the shape of the building that has its entrance on 2006 Gaona Avenue stands out.

Its style is academic and is characterized by a studied arrangement, not only in relation to it’s outside but also to its inside.

These types of apartment buildings were, in general, spacious and luxurious constructions, since they were meant to be occupied by wealthy families.

According to Jose Javier Martini and Jose Maria Peña, in their book, “The ornamentation in Buenos Aires Architecture from 1900 to 1940”, academic architecture is the last chapter of a history that started with the arrival of neoclassical architecture in 1820, and is spread out during more than one century, adopting diverse shapes according to each period.

Academic details on its windows

Although academic architecture was very criticized, even from a social perspective, it cannot be denied that it used extremely studied, refined and stable lines, like those exhibited by the building on Gaona Avenue, where the French influence is clearly exposed in each of its details, even in the curved line of the corner crowned by the hollowed frontis, which seems to be replacing the classical dome.

The street on the side of the building, Biedma, was given its name as a tribute to Jose Juan Biedma, historian, journalist, professor and military person, born in 1864 and deceased in 1933.