Montevideo Shopping Center is the first shopping mall that opened in Montevideo, Uruguay . It is located in the neighborhood Buceo , on the border with Pocitos , right in front of the World Trade Center Montevideo .
5-427: Opened in 1985 and later expanded, it has 181 shops on three levels; parking place for 2051 vehicles on six levels. It was created by Estudio Gómez Platero, López Rey Estudio Gómez Platero, with the intervention of the engineer Eladio Dieste in the original brick structure. The original idea for the mall came from the accountant Luis Eugenio Lecueder . The seagull design was made by cartoonist Gabriel Odera . The mall
10-657: Is managed by the Estudio Luis E. Lecueder (which in turn is owned along with the Portones Shopping , Tres Cruces Shopping , Nuevocentro Shopping , Salto Shopping Terminal, Mercedes Terminal Shopping, Colonia Shopping and the Paysandú Terminal Shopping). The complex receives around 1,400,000 visitors per month, and has been expanded 21 times. Montevideo Shopping has been the landing place for several international brands that have arrive in
15-680: The modernist language, such as Guillermo Gonzalez Zuleta in Colombia , Carlos Raúl Villanueva in Venezuela and Félix Candela in Mexico , who brought architecture and structural engineering into close proximity, especially when undertaking humble commissions. His buildings were mostly roofed with thin shell vaults constructed of brick and ceramic tiles. These forms were cheaper than reinforced concrete, and didn't require ribs and beams. In developing this approach, even in comparison with modernists
20-574: The country, such as McDonald's (1991), Zara (1999), Forever 21 (2014), Starbucks Coffee (2018), H&M (2018). This article about a Uruguayan building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Eladio Dieste Eladio Dieste (December 1, 1917 – July 29, 2000) was a Uruguayan engineer who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, most of them in Uruguay and all of exceptional elegance. Dieste
25-624: Was born in Artigas department . His uncle was the Spanish poet Rafael Dieste . A particular innovation was his Gaussian vault , a thin-shell structure for roofs in single-thickness brick, that derives its stiffness and strength from a double curvature catenary arch form that resists buckling failure. There were several architects and engineers in South and Latin America who were working in
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