Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel & Convention Center

A municipal ordinance enacted in 1967 commissioned the Municipal Department of Architecture and Urbanism (MCBA) to create the Catalinas Norte office park, touching off an important urban redevelopment effort in what had been a derelict area of the Port of Buenos Aires.

[2] The building, one of the first Argentine hotels built in the International style, was designed by SEPRA architects Santiago Sánchez Elía, Federico Peralta Ramos, and Alfredo Agostini; SEPRA would subsequently design numerous other high-rises in the district, and became one of the leading architectural firms in Argentina.

The hotel featured restaurants and bars along a first floor promenade; an indoor shopping center; gardens; a convention center, including an auditorium with capacity for 230 people; two tennis courts; an outdoor swimming pool; an underground parking lot and a rooftop restaurant with a view of the Río de la Plata.

[4] A powerful bomb ripped through room 2204, killing Canadian tourist Lois Crozier and injuring her husband and an American woman.

[6] Among the first notable guests following these additions were international Korean businessman Sun Myung Moon and former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, who were on hand in November, 1996, to inaugurate Tiempos del Mundo (a News World Communications news daily published until 2007).

The Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel, 2009.
The Buenos Aires-Sheraton Hotel in 1976, as originally constructed, before the addition of the Park Tower wing.
The Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel and the Torre Monumental .