Curated Itinerary
Buenos Aires Art Deco: a walk through Corrientes Avenue’s skyscrapers and theatres
See the Art Deco landmarks of Corrientes Avenue: the Safico and Comega skyscrapers, Broadway Theatre and Gran Rex, all within a short walk.
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From Safico Building to Broadway Theatre (Buenos Aires), in the order we curated them.
➤ Turn on the navigator in Google MapsIt opens in the Google Maps app with every stop already loaded, in the order we put them in. From there the route is yours: pick how you travel — on foot, by bike, by public transport or by car — change where you start and where you end, drag the stops into a different order, and add places of your own along the way.
This walking route follows 1.8 kilometres of Avenida Corrientes, from the Safico Building to the Teatro Broadway, and takes about 120 minutes. It passes four Art Deco landmarks completed between 1930 and 1937. The route suits autumn and spring, when mild weather makes it comfortable to pause and look up at the facades.
The Safico Building, opened in 1933 and 90 metres tall, was among the earliest true skyscrapers in Buenos Aires, surpassed then only by the Palacio Barolo. Its reinforced concrete frame, built in ten months, mixes Art Deco with rationalist and Bauhaus elements. A short walk further stands the Comega Building, an 88-metre tower in travertine, completed in 1934 as the first reinforced concrete skyscraper in Argentina.
The second half of the walk moves into the theatre district. Teatro Gran Rex, designed by Alberto Prebisch and opened on 8 July 1937 as the largest cinema in Argentina, seats 3,300 spectators. The final stop, Teatro Broadway at 1155 Corrientes Avenue, opened on 11 October 1930 and was designed by Jorge Kálnay with geometric facades typical of Art Deco.
Read the article
The magazine has a longer piece on this walk: Buenos Aires Art Deco: a walk through Corrientes Avenue's skyscrapers and theatres.
Step by step
Safico Building
The Safico Building, standing on Avenida Corrientes in downtown Buenos Aires, is a landmark Art Déco skyscraper that fuses rationalist, Bauhaus, and Art Déco…
Comega Building
The Comega Building, rising at the corner of Avenida Corrientes and Avenida Leandro N. Alem in downtown Buenos Aires, stands as one of the Argentine…
Teatro Gran Rex
Opened in July 1937 on Corrientes Avenue, Teatro Gran Rex is Buenos Aires's finest surviving Art Deco theatre, designed by architect Alberto Prebisch in just…
Broadway Theatre (Buenos Aires)
An Art Deco theatre that opened in 1930 on Buenos Aires' celebrated Corrientes Avenue, designed by Jorge Kálnay as a symbol of the city's cultural prosperity.
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PDF is the stop list with GPS, to print or keep on the phone. GPX for Garmin / Komoot / OsmAnd. KML for Google Earth and Maps.
Walk it with the navigator on
It opens in the Google Maps app with every stop already loaded, in the order we put them in. From there the route is yours: pick how you travel — on foot, by bike, by public transport or by car — change where you start and where you end, drag the stops into a different order, and add places of your own along the way.
To keep the route in the app instead of opening it once, download the KML above and import it into Google My Maps — Create a new map, then Import: the route then sits among your own maps in Google Maps, with the stops and our notes attached to each one.