Uploaded on 2015-05-03 by ierosas

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14306936401008718.jpg The photograph was taken by me, and there are links talking about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Company_Palace http://www.aysa.com.ar/Media/archivos/427/Folleto_Institucional_Palacio.pdf The building was designed as a water pumping station in 1877 and completed in 1894. The water tank and their equipment came from Belgium, and the facades came from Leeds, London, and Glasgow. The engineer in charge of studies of water tank was English, the architecture designer was Norwegian, the engineer leadership was Swede. Goodbye, Ignacio So, from my point of view, the problem of importing materials is an old issue to developing country, and if we think a bit more we can also expand the problem to the style of constructions.