by “This is the bow of the country”It is defined by the administrator, and by the explanation he provides about one of the iconic buildings of Mar del Plata, As if he were looking out from the deck of a ship, the figure is accurate. It is that the towers of the Mirador Cabo Corrientes Building emerges at the culmination of the Tandilia system, on the Mar del Plata coast, and that point is precisely the end of the territory that is most inserted into the sea.
The skyline of Mar del Plata taken from the north is incomplete without the towers of the EMCC, which has just completed 50 years and these days it is heading towards a technological and security renovation supported by a council of owners that passionately describes each of the characteristics of the place they live in, “an impossible place.”
“It was believed that nothing could be built here,” explains Heriberto Giandinoto, administrator of the building, “in fact the footing – the foundations of the building – are visible. You will not find another place like this.” Indeed, in the garages, you can see part of the structure embedded in the stone
It so happens that the EMCC was built on a rocky terrainirregular, on the ancient Mar del Plata stone – caurcitic rock – of the Tandilia System that was dynamited until the rest of the city of those days withstood it: “The stained glass windows of the chalets in the area exploded with each explosion,” says Osvaldo Sandonato, from the owners council.
But still, without dynamite, the work continued at that time. rocky area of almost 10 thousand meters squares on Cape Corrientes, between Varese and Playa Chica, at that historical extreme: meters away, in October 1826, Admiral Guillermo Brown anchored the schooner Sarandí during the war against the Empire of Brazil. The second founder of Buenos Aires, Juan de Garay, had already visited there.
It was in November 1581. Accompanied by about forty Spanish soldiers, he arrived on horseback in search of gold. He liked what he discovered and communicated his impression to the king of Spain: “It is a very beautiful coast and runs along a flat hill of countryside (the current Santa Cecilia hill) and in some parts carts can reach the water…”
There is no tourist who at some point does not pass in front of the original structure.open in a fan in four towers, the “four fingers”, the “open book”, how they have described it. In recent years it has become the subject of examination for architecture students at UNMDP and UBA.
The architect who was in charge of the project and the work, Débora Di Veroli, Romanian, hired by the construction company Domingo Fiorentini y Hnos SA, died in January of last year. She erected four volumes of 16 floors each one united by semicircular sector. The work began in 1969.
They were different times. The apartments began to be sold in 132 fixed installments and in pesos. In 1977, four years after its inauguration, all the units had been sold. Last November, the EMCC turned 50 years old.
Di Veroli was able to carry out the idea that he had proposed to the builder; that all the units, that is, the 554 apartments, had an ocean view. There are 3 and up to 7 rooms; The “pointers”, units that face the entire front, all sea, have more than 200 square meters.
Although it went through difficult times, the owners say, in the mid-90s they managed to consolidate a council that gave another dynamic to maintenance. Each apartment has fiber optics – even in the hallways there is free high-speed internet; ionized water, and the ongoing project is to make it possible to navigate through each of the towers in 3D, “in this way, in the event of an emergency, a promotion for example, we would tell the firefighters the exact place to reach without loss of time”.
In winter there are only 120 occupied apartments. It is these days when the Mirador Cabo Corrientes is fully active, with owners arriving for the season and tenants, and with its 45 commercial premises, gym, swimming pool and huge patios – the deck of the ship of the analogy – it is one city immersed in another.
