Uploaded on 2015-05-05 by arkibottoli

Teatro Colon, opera house in Buenos Aires, its construction started in 1889 and was completed in 1908. Its structural frame is concrete. The original project is of an **Italian architect**. Taking a look at it, the style is eclectic and international…..it could be a theatre anyrywere , in any occidental city. I Have found some description of its materials : The entrance hall is lined with marble from **Verona** marble and stucco simile. In the ornamentation was used marble top quality and of different backgrounds. The staircase is made of white marble **from Carrara** and rails that are surrounded in marble **from Portugal**. On both sides of the foot of the staircase railings finish in two lion heads carved by hand into pieces complete. The basements of the stairs on the first floor are clad in black marble **from Belgium**. Huge columns of the Golden Hall are carved with a profusion of details in gold. The furnishings are **French**, with luxurious marquetry work. Couches and chairs are upholstered in pale pink. Stained glass were incorporated into the decoration from the emergence of the architect's work at Meano, and conducted by the prestigious house **Gaudin Paris in 1907**. Thick red velvet curtains covering the entrances and aligned with those of the boxes, worked in natural silk **from France**. The original paintings of the dome of the Chamber of Marcel Jambon . Under the dome is the central chandelier of seven meters in diameter, **built in France** in the late nineteenth century. Is made of bronze and burnish was surrounded with 700 electric balloon. As you see in the beginning of the XX century, building was almost globalized. ![**ingrese la descripción de la imagen aquí**][1] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14308601549661638.jpg