30-791: Not to be confused with Kirshner or Kirschner . Kirchner is an occupational surname of German origin, derived from the Middle High German word kirchenaere (' sexton ', 'priest', 'church assistant' or 'church property administrator'). Notable people with the name include: Arts [ edit ] Alfred Kirchner (born 1937), German actor, theatre director, opera director, theatre manager Athanasius Kircher , a/k/a Athanasius Kirchner (1602–1680), German Jesuit scholar and polymath Claude Kirchner (1916–1993), American television announcer and children's personality Emma Kirchner (1830–1909), German photographer who lived and worked in
60-462: A decade earlier. The sudden onset of the Panic of 1890 and the subsequent crisis led to President Juárez Celman's resignation, however, as well as to the project's suspension. The national government revived the plans only in 1905, and in 1908 Maillart returned to Buenos Aires, where his new plans for a larger post office were approved the following April. Differences later arose between Maillart and
90-489: A homage to Néstor Kirchner. The centre is now branded simply as "Palacio Libertad" and the room that once housed a memorial display in honour of Kirchner has been dismantled. The Macri administration has intended to change the name of CCK to the "Bicentennial Cultural Centre" ( Centro Cultural del Bicentenario ). In October 2016, a bill was introduced in Congress to prohibit the federal government from naming facilities after
120-541: A president who has not been dead for at least 20 years, effectively forcing CCK to be renamed upon passage and enactment of the bill. The Argentine National Symphony Orchestra , founded by Péron in 1948 but homeless for 67 years, has taken up permanent residency at the Kirchner Centre. As many as 10,000 patrons a day visit venues and events at the Liberty Centre. Everything is currently free, because
150-521: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Kirchner Cultural Centre The Libertad Palace, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Cultural Center ( Spanish : Palacio Libertad, Centro Cultural Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ) is a cultural centre located in Buenos Aires , Argentina . It is the largest of Latin America , and the third or fourth largest in the world. The building
180-526: Is possible to reach the centre with Line B and Line E of the city's underground , at Leandro N. Alem and Correo Central respectively. The need for a new central post office in Buenos Aires was first raised in 1888 by the director of the Correo Argentino (Argentine Postal Service) at the time, Dr. Ramón J. Cárcano . Later that year a congressional bill providing for its construction
210-449: The NCBI webpage on Kirchneriella . Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources" . National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2020-12-29 . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Kirchner . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
240-1710: The Netherlands . Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist artist Ignaz Kirchner (1946–2018), German actor Jaime Lee Kirchner (1981), American actress Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), American composer Marilena Kirchner (1997), German volksmusik and schlager singer Paul Kirchner (1952), American illustrator and comic-book author Raphael Kirchner (1876–1917), Austrian artist and illustrator Shabier Kirchner (born 1987/1988), Antiguan cinematographer and filmmaker Theodor Kirchner (1823–1903), German composer Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), German violist and composer Politics [ edit ] Alicia Kirchner (born 1946), Argentine politician Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953), Argentine politician, former President and Vice-President of Argentina Máximo Kirchner (born 1977), Argentine politician Néstor Kirchner (1950–2010), former President of Argentina Russ Kirchner Jr. , American businessman William G. Kirchner (1916–1999), American politician and businessman Sports [ edit ] Albert Edward Lester "Alby" Kirchner (1888–1942), Australian rules footballer Andreas Kirchner (1953–2010), German hammer thrower and bob pusher H. E. Kirchner (1937–1993), American basketball player Mark Kirchner (1970), German biathlete Michael Kirchner or Corporal Kirchner (1957–2021), American professional wrestler Zane Kirchner (1984), South African rugby player Other [ edit ] 16441 Kirchner , asteroid discovered in 1989 Friedrich Kirchner (1885–1960), German General during
270-527: The Sala Federal for music, and La Cúpula and Sala Argentina for live theater. Since the inauguration of President Mauricio Macri (whose father, Francisco Macri , led a conglomerate that once owned the building), the Centre became part of the newly formed Federal System of Media and Public Contents ( Sistema Federal de Medios y Contenidos Publicos ) and has sought to de-emphasize its function as
300-413: The surname Kirshner . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kirshner&oldid=1143059967 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
330-540: The Argentine government, and the French architect abandoned the project in 1911. Construction, which had just started, was then left to the supervision of Maillart's chief assistant, Jacques Spolsky. Spolsky reengineered the design, which featured masonry supports, to consist of a steel-reinforced concrete structure, for which 2,882 steel pillars were placed onto the bedrock, 10 m (33 ft) deep. Limitations on
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#1732776775884360-551: The Culture Ministry operates on the assumption that the arts belong to everyone — "We consider culture to be a right" — as said by former minister of culture Teresa Parodi in her interview with the U.S. National Public Radio . Then President of Argentina Mauricio Macri of Argentina assumed the one-year G20 presidency on 30 November 2017, during an official ceremony in Liberty Cultural Centre, for
390-491: The Second World War James Kirchner , University of California professor Johanna Kirchner (1889–1944), anti-Nazi dissident Kirchner's viscacha rat , species of rodents in the family Octodontidae described in 2014, one of two species in the genus Tympanoctomys Kirchner Cultural Centre , cultural centre located in Buenos Aires , Argentina Kirchneriella , genus of green algae in
420-407: The building measured eight stories and 60 m (200 ft) in height and included over 88,000 m (948,000 ft²) of indoor space. The central hall was decorated with marble throughout, features stained glass windows , numerous bronze sculptures and mail drop boxes, and a four-story-high domed ceiling. The grandiose setting led President Juan Perón to move his offices in the building during
450-423: The city's public works budgets resulting from the onset of World War I forced another major design alteration in 1916. The planned construction of an elevated causeway on Leandro Alem Avenue was cancelled, and a mezzanine was quickly added to the plans to compensate for an entrance which would now be one floor below the original's. Spolsky achieved this without substantial changes to the building's exterior, though
480-525: The early years of his 1946–55 tenure, and the First Lady, Eva Perón , designated a wing as the first headquarters of the charitable Eva Perón Foundation . During the subsequent automobile boom in Argentina, the plaza facing the post office was made into a parking lot. Opposition to the 1979 sale of the parking lot for the construction of a local Bank of Tokyo headquarters proved insurmountable, and
510-729: The family Selenastraceae Kirchner Peak , isolated peak in Antarctica Kirchnerism , Argentine political movement Kirchner v. Venus (1859) , English Law case precedent that defined freight as "the reward payable to the carrier of for the safe carriage and delivery of goods" Oskar von Kirchner (1851–1925), German botanist and agronomist References [ edit ] ^ "Kirchner Name Meaning & Kirchner Family History at Ancestry.com" . www.ancestry.com . Retrieved 15 January 2019 . ^ Pablo Teta; Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas; Daniel E. Udrizar Sauthier i Milton H. Gallardo (2014), "A new species of
540-607: The first time in South America . In March 2024, the Javier Milei 's administration announced that the CCK would change its name. Two months later, the government revealed that the building would be renamed "Palacio Libertad", after considering other names such as Julio Argentino Roca, Jorge Luis Borges, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and Bartolomé Mitre. In addition, the national government claimed that Palacio Libertad name
570-738: The 💕 Kirshner may refer to: Andy Kirshner , American composer, performer, writer, and media artist David-Seth Kirshner (born 1973), American rabbi Don Kirshner (1934–2011), American music publisher, consultant, producer, talent manager, and songwriter Lev Kirshner (born 1969), American soccer player and coach Mia Kirshner (born 1975), Canadian actress, writer, and social activist Rebecca Rand Kirshner (born 1974), American television writer and producer Ricky Kirshner , American television producer Robert Kirshner (born 1949), American astronomer See also [ edit ] Kirschner Kirchner [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
600-543: The name would be changed in March 2024. Despite this, the name "Palacio Libertad" only applies to the building itself. As of October 10, 2024, the building was renamed "Domingo Faustino Sarmiento". The nine-floor centre has a concert hall; five other auditoriums for theater and concerts; 18 halls for poetry readings, performance art, and other events; 40 rooms of art and history galleries totaling 15,000 square meters on six floors; 16 rehearsal rooms; and two rooftop terraces. It
630-440: The number of delays led to considerable cost overruns on the project, and its budget was exhausted in 1923. President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear , however, obtained congressional support for a new appropriation, and on September 28, 1928 (two weeks before the end of Alvear's tenure), the new Secretaría de Comunicaciones was inaugurated. The building's eclectic design, drawing prominently from French Second Empire architecture ,
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#1732776775884660-542: The ornate Beaux-Arts style beauty of the original building. The main concert hall La Sala Sinfonica (originally named La Ballena Azul , or "The Blue Whale"), seating 1,950 people, is a blimp-shaped three-storey auditorium and opera house floating in the former package-sorting area. It houses a Klais Orgelbau pipe organ (opus 1912), which can be played via a remote console. It has four manuals and about eight thousand pipes. It weighs 30 metric tons and features three 32' stops in pédale registers. The other principal venues are
690-481: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kirchner&oldid=1255609664 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Occupational surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)-language text Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Kirshner From Misplaced Pages,
720-546: The plans were cancelled. Guillermo del Cioppo, the minister of urban development and later mayor, ordered the construction of an underground parking structure instead, and the lot above was converted into a park in 1983. The building was designated a National Historic Monument in 1997. Most of its postal activities had been transferred to a newer structure during the Perón administration, and it handled only international mail in later years. In 2005, its last remaining postal bureau
750-591: The tetraploid vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys (Caviomorpha, Octodontidae) from central Patagonia, Argentina" , Journal of Mammalogy , 95 (1): 60–71, doi : 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-160 , hdl : 11336/22721 ^ Woods, C.A.; Kilpatrick, C.W. (2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi" . In Wilson, D.E. ; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1573. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0 . OCLC 62265494 . ^ See
780-600: Was closed. President Néstor Kirchner proposed the conversion of the abandoned building and landmark into a cultural centre in June 2005, and two years later, plans were approved for the construction of two concert halls and an exhibition gallery for the creation of the Bicentennial Cultural Centre ( Centro Cultural del Bicentenario ). The centre's winning design was provided by a team of architects led by siblings Enrique, Federico and Nicolás Bares. It
810-488: Was originally opened in 1928 as the Buenos Aires Central Post Office ("Palacio de Correos"), operating until 2002. During successive years, it was refurbished and reopened in 2015 as a cultural center. It was named for a few years after former president of Argentina Néstor Kirchner , who had oversaw its conversion. The name is polarizing in Argentina, with the country's presidency announcing
840-680: Was originally scheduled to be inaugurated on the Argentina Bicentennial , May 25, 2010. Completion of the new centre was delayed considerably, however, and in 2012 its designated name was amended as Centro Cultural del Bicentenario Presidente Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner . Upon opening in May 2015 it was named the shorter Centro Cultural Kirchner (English: Kirchner Cultural Centre). When the architects added new spaces and elements, they purposely used different materials such as clear and frosted glass and stainless steel, to maintain sight of
870-555: Was signed by President Miguel Juárez Celman . The Ministry of Public Works commissioned French architect Norbert Maillart for its design in 1889. Designating a 12,500 m (134,000 ft²) city block on the corner of Leandro Alem and Corrientes Avenues for its construction, the Public Works Ministry chose the site as a means to beautify a land reclamation site where the shores of the Río de la Plata had reached just
900-617: Was typical of the public buildings and upscale real estate built in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities early in the 20th century. Despite their differences, Maillart went on to design the Buenos Aires National College and the Argentine Supreme Court , and Spolsky designed post offices for Rosario and San Miguel de Tucumán in a similar style while at work on this structure. The largest public building completed in Argentina up to that point,
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