Uploaded on 2014-10-23 by ezecattalin

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14140234566776857.jpg The picture show an the skyline of Buenos Aires´s newest neighborhoods **Puerto Madero**. It´s an old port that has been refurbished and now include office buildings (glass facades), residential buildings (the concrete one under-construction in the back) and comercial and food buildings (Brick old deposits at the front). The construction of the port started in 1887 and, as the country didn´t have much industry back then, all the materials were imported fron the UK. At the top right of the picture it is visible a mooring (use to tie up ships) made in Cardiff by Globe Foundry Co. The knowledge was also imported fron the UK, being Thomas Walker & Co. and Hawkshaw, Son & Hayter the companies that were in charge of the construction. And finally the capital was also imported fron the UK. The Baring Brothers & Co Bank financed the whole thing. Nowadays the country produce all major construction materials only importing raw materials, specialized machinery and workers from neighboring countries. As we can see the globalization of construction has been present from a long time and the trend seems to be to import high engineered materials and low-skill workers.