Instituto Alfredo Vázquez Acevedo (building)
The Instituto Alfredo Vázquez Acevedo is a building in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo .
The building, inaugurated in 1911, is located in the Barrio Cordón on Calle Eduardo Acevedo 1419-1427 and the streets José E. Rodó , Guayabo and Emilio Frugoni . Alfredo Jones Brown was responsible as the architect . The building houses Liceo Nº 35 "Instituto Alfredo Vázquez Acevedo" (IAVA), the oldest secondary school (Liceo) in the Montevideo department . In addition, the Observatorio Astronómico , the Museo de Historia Natural "Dr. Carlos A. Torres de la Llosa" , which opened on January 22, 1911, and the Biblioteca de Enseñanza Secundaria are housed here. From 2006 to March 2009, restoration and renovation work was carried out on the building for around 2.5 million US dollars under the direction of architect Jorge Di Pólito .
Since 1976 the building has been classified as the Monumento Histórico Nacional .
literature
- Guía Arquitectónica y Urbanística de Montevideo. 3. Edition. Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo et al., Montevideo et al. 2008, ISBN 978-9974-600-26-3 , pp. 78, 151.
Web links
- Instituto Vázquez Acevedo (IAVA) (Spanish), accessed July 7, 2012
- Official IAVA website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Museo Historia Natural: Historia (Spanish), accessed July 7, 2012
- ↑ ANEP invirtió dos millones y medio de dólares en la recuperación del edificio del IAVA - On March 2009, se inaugurarán las obras de recuperación y remodelación del histórico edificio del Instituto “Alfredo Vázquez Acevedoº. 35, queue-2011” (IAVA) - cumplirá 100 años. ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Retrieved July 7, 2012
Coordinates: 34 ° 54 '12.2 " S , 56 ° 10' 33.8" W.