Palacio de Aguas Corrientes
The Palace of Running Waters (Spanish: Palacio de Aguas Corrientes) in Buenos Aires, Argentina was built in the late 19th century to house drinking water reservoirs in grand style. It was also the former headquarters of state-owned company Obras Sanitarias de la Nación. It is currently administered by Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos (AySA).
Construction was undertaken between 1887 and 1894, under the Swedish engineer Olaf Boye and the Norwegian architect Carlos Nyströmer, who worked based on the project drawn up by the British engineer John Frederick La Trobe Bateman.
Inside there are 12 tanks that with a total capacity of 72 million litres, supported by iron structures fabricated in Belgium The tanks held water until 1978 and have since been converted into a large archive housing 2.5 million historical plans of sanitary facilities, magazines and related publications. The building also houses the offices of the Aysa company and the Museum of Water and Sanitary History.
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The building was featured in Engineering 1896/02/07, where it was described as a service reservoir. The article was based on a Paper by R. C. Parsons, and notes that it was designed by Bateman, Parsons, and Bateman, engineers to the Sanitary Improvement Works of that city. The building is 320 ft. square and 66 ft. to the top of the parapet, and was capable of containing 16,000,000 gallons of water. It is placed on the highest ground in the city, where it faces a wide street in one of the best residential districts. The Argentine Government, when deciding to build this reservoir, arranged that the external appearance should not only be in keeping with the handsome buildings in the neighbourhood, but also that it should serve as a monument of the sanitary improvement works of the city. The terra-cotta, which was supplied Doulton and Co., of London, and the glazed ware by The Burmantofts Company of Leeds, consisted of about 170,000 blocks, and in addition to these about 130,000 glazed bricks were used.