Another shop at Caballito

Wonderful house and shop at Bogota and Otamendi, Caballito. March 2008.

House at Caballito

Half hidden house at Caballito, Centenario and Otamendi, MArch 2008.

Butcher and Grocery shop, Villa Luro

Corner shop at Medina and Ramon Falcón, Villa Luro, March 2008.

Shop at Villa Luro

Sunday morning at Villa Luro, a closed shop at Pizarro and Guardia Nacional, March 2008.

Corner house, Caballito

A small corner house at Galicia and Pujol, Caballito, March, 2008.

Very old house, Saavedra

Very old house, at the corner of Paroissien and Cramer, Saavedra, January, 2008.

House or Shop? Caballito

An old house and probably a shop at Caballito. Note the pattern of the frieze. October 30th, 2008.

House and butcher, Caballito

A house, and a closed shop (butcher shop?), Cucha Cucha and Luis Viale, Caballito, December 11th, 2008.

Café & Bar, Caballito

Bar and coffe shop at Caballito, Cucha Cucha and Luis Viale, December 11th, 2008.

House for rent? Palermo

A house for rent at El Salvador and Ravignani, Palermo. December 8th 2008.

Two houses at Coghlan

Two houses at the same intersection, Rivera and Melian, Coghlan. December 8th, 2008

Pharmacy at Palermo

Pharmacy at Bompland and Paraguay, Palermo... December 8th, 2008.

House with Shop, Abasto

Books and office supplies store at Abasto (Balvanera). Lavalle and Aguero, Nov 29th, 2008. Location here (Google maps)

Banco Nacion

An institutional corner. Banco de la Nación Argentina. Corrientes and Aguero, Abasto (Balvanera), Nov. 29th. Location here (Google Maps)

Building at Caballito

And now, a slightly different post. Tres Arroyos and Espinosa (?). No door or opening on the corner, but a beautiful building at Caballito. Still standing! Location Here. Image updated Dec. 2008.

Future unknown

Yatay and Guardia Vieja. The door/window at the corner has been closed. Note the heavy modifications on the windows of the ground floor. Nov. 2008.

Why I do this (pt.2)

This shop has closed. The fate of this corner is still unknown. Corrientes and Yatay, Nov. 2008.

Why I do this?

This is why. A dead house. We cannot figure out what was there (at least without some research). Yatay an Humahuaca (?), this morning, Nov. 14th, 2008.

UPDATE: This is how it looked in 2005/2006

House and corner

Gurruchaga and Nicaragua, December 2007.

House, Gorriti and Acuña de Figueroa

Summer heat, December 31st, 2007.

Grocery store, Palermo

J.L. Borges and Costa Rica (?), Palermo. October 2007.

Old corner at Saavedra

Roque Pérez and Deheza (?). Circa August 2007.

A hose at Campichuelo st.

Corner house at Campichuelo and Bogotá (?). December 2007.

Shop at Palermo

Corner at Godoy Cruz and Cabrera (?), October 2007.

A house at Palermo

A corner house at Ravignani and Gorriti, Palermo. December 2007.

Corner Lights

Acuña de Figueroa and Gorriti, Palermo, Nov. 2007.

Corner shop at Caballito

Aranguren and Eleodoro Lobos, Oct/Nov. 2007.

El Preferido, 1885. J.L. Borges and Guatemala

Almost "the definition" of the ochava. El Preferido, at Palermo. The date in the building indicates the year 1885. Photo: October 2007.

El Chaflán, J.J. Millás

An interesting point of view on the moral entity of the "ochava", by Juan José Millás (in spanish!):

http://naiandei.net/articulos/el_chaflan.juan_jose_millas/