Parque de la ciudad

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The Parque de la Ciudad (Spanish: City Park) is an amusements centre.

[edit] History

The project was started in 1978 by the military city goverment of Osvaldo Cacciatore under the national military government. Cacciatore lunched the bid for the construction of a thematical park, which was won by the company Interama Parks S.A. company originated to show up in the bid, designating as General Director to Alberto Gourdy Allende.^[1]

Interama Parks was formed for military of the dictatorship that governed Argentina in that moment, and for civil (Daily Clarin 2-1-2001). Interama Parks contract to the company Switzerland "Intamin AG that made the times of importer of the attractions (mechanical games, Rollers coasters, etc), of some facilities and accessories (cared stars of E.E.U.U. only in the country, shopping carts for the production and popcorns sale, etc) and of the Space (it structures only in the world designed especially for the project "INTERAMA") Tower. Intamin AG is nowadays one of the company designers and makers of attractions but important of the world.

At the end of 1978 the construction began. The property dedicated to the project of the Park Zoofitogeografico and of Amusements .asi was denominated - it was understood among the Avenues Escalade, Lacarra, Cnel. Rock and Castañares, being between both as separation properties the roads of rail Belgrano South lines her and one of the parking lot beaches located between these roads and the avenue Fernández of Cruz (in front of the current Park of the City).

The construction began on the property that serious the Amusements Park, that is to say the current "Park of the City" limited by the Avenues Escalade, Lacarra, Cnel. Rock and Fernández of Cruz (this it finishes it would cross the complete complex, being as nexus between the Park of Amusements and the Park Zoofitogeografico the metallic current bridge on Fernández of Cruz).

The current property was for the time a fallow gigantic land, in which they could be some precarious and very humble small stalls that were evicted and unarmed.

After the retirement of different debris and wastes (it leaves of the property it was used as landfill) the place is clever to be used, a fence settled down in the whole perimeter and one (or several) obrador / it is. The floor (1.000.000 of cubic meters) movements began to even it and to carry out the lakes and hills, they were carried out the floor studies for the location of the attractions of great behavior, they began to be delineated the roads and the interior streets that were interrupted by the "playones" where would settle the games. For the studies of the floor it was appealed one of the expert biggest geologists in the time, James Fowler. The design of the Park was in charge of the representative of Disney World, Richard Battaglia.

The construction you carries out low the General Address of Work of the Engineer Omar N. Vázquez and their work team.

The neighborhood of Villa Soldati and their surroundings were riotous: an incessant parade of trucks transporting infinity of containers that contained the mystery of their content. Alone in the exterior of several of them inscriptions could be appreciated with meanings strangers for the such time as: Haushahn Gmbh, (Elevators) to. Schwarzkopf (Roller coaster) or Intamin AG

But the shipment that but he got the attention to the anxious neighbors to have their "small Disney finished World" it was formed by incredible quantities of steel beams and metallic profiles of not less incredible dimensions, those that high but it takes for the cranes that were taken also to the future dismantled Park, they would form the mythical and unmistakable symbol of the stateliness of the project: The Space Tower.

Torre Entrada

Torre Noche

For the time in that newly finished awarding the bid to Parks Interama S.A. it was already spoken of the Space Tower, although their name was not even known, the construction project was known of"... a circular tower with observatory and restaurant..." (according to publication of Magazine People of the month of November of 1978)

In May of 1980 the works began for the construction of the Space Tower.

Some roads were already paved to facilitate the access of the necessary machineries to begin with the foundation (foundations). The first scheme used (without having in bill diggers and mechanical shovels) it was a pilotera which took charge of carrying out the perforations for the formation of the piles in situ.

The piles were carried out by the company TREVI INC with a cost of US $ 728.000.

TREVI INC also carries out the piles for the foundations of the following structures:

Roller Coaster "Vertigorama" US $ 2.025.000

Columns "Aerogondolas" US $ 78.000

Russian mountain "Aconcagua", rail bridges of the "Train" US $ 67.000

Pedestrian bridge of Entrance on Av. F.F. of Cruz US $ 16.000

Once made the perforations 35 meters deep, the metallic armors were introduced that they would reinforce the concrete, and they were filled with Bentonita, a mineral that you uses to displace the present water for the phreatic napa. Once full the perforation with Bentonita and with the retired water, of I displace Bentonita with the concrete that would form the pile, pumping it for pipe from the bottom. As the concrete level grew, the bentonita was displaced, as previously it happened to the water.

When the concrete reaches the superior alone level it was enough to wait that this it forged. Approximately the 10 meters but deep of the piles, they are embedded in Puelchense that is a layer of very hard characteristic material of the underground of Buenos Aires.

The procedure of having filled repeated 30 times, since this it is the quantity of piles that they form the foundation of the Space Tower. Once concluded the 30 piles, these they were cut off (with the metallic armor visible) to a depth 8 meters of the level of the floor. This serious depth occupied by the solid Orchestra of concrete in which the main columns of the Tower are stuffed.

All the works for the construction of the foundation were carried out in approximately 6 months.

Once finished the orchestra the construction of the metallic structure that I delay other 6 months began.

Leaving of the columns stuffed in the orchestra, they began to unite the thousands of metallic parts, for that which you contract to the montajer company Mc Kee INC.

While the Tower began to be grown they made the foundations for the anchorages of the tensors that would lower from the level 120 meters. These foundations were made from an identical way to that of the Tower although with smaller quantity of piles (2 for anchorage)

Until the level of 120 meters the Tower behaved like a structure autoportante (he didn't need arriostraje for tensile).

The cables of the tensors were uncoiled of the spools in those that were and ascended by the crane for their placement in an important beam under the Platform 1 and tightened until the concrete anchorages that are to 95 meters of the base of the Tower.

For the navidad of 1980 these steel cables were good to still transform the incomplete structure in an improvised but gigantic navidad tree. At nights they could it turns the thousands of lamps of colors that they formed the garlands embedded the steel tensors and a giant star on the roof of the Platform 2 together with a poster located in one of the sides of the platform 1 in which could be read at the distance: FE

The construction continued ahead, or but well up. Every day the workers that should exercise their work in it but high they already arrived for the internal stairway installed or they were taken until there in a cage species which was hooked by the crane that was in that moment in operation

While all this happened to the construction of the Tower, in the rest of the Park the activity was not smaller. They began to be assembled the tracts of the Russian mountains that they had already abandoned the mysterious containers and they were clever in the floor it has more than enough wooden tacos, waiting until the one numbers that they took inscriptos in their parts of it assembles it coincided with the I already number of the tract installed. The future lakes that were still simple depressions in the land, gave the necessary earth to give form to the hills that today is recovered of grass. The place stopped to be a fallow giant and he began to take life with the colorful games that were arming.

The Tower continued become obstinate with having the record of height in Argentina and it continued growing.

The platforms 1 and 2 already had their quite complete structure, and the crane left their functions to pass him/her the post to the crane climber that would continue with the one it assembles from the 120 meters until the culmination of the Tower.

From far a form was already profiled but it sums up that toward such rumors as that he would settle a revolvable sweet shop as that of the Tower CN in Canada, running in fashion and recently inaugurated by that time.

The metallic profiles seemed to never finish, most of the beams but big they were already in their place sustaining and giving form to the first platforms, but they even lacked many but I eat the countless bulones figure and nuts that the workers should place likewise and to adjust one by one.

The Tower was already in the level of the 176 meters and the whole city looked toward the South for the expectation that generated that structure of modern, futuristic design that was conjugated at the same time with the classic procedures of construction: profile of steel, floors and foil linings that they unite gradually for the typical fixation method of abulonado in the constructions of steel of great span.

They finished mounting the generous beams that support the floor of the Mirador and the room of you scheme, then the panels of the windows rose while in the base of the Tower a group of workers began to rivet the "skin" of the Tower. The characteristic plates of aluminum in a trapezoidal way that allows that the Tower is view with its white color from almost any place inside of and outside of the city of Buenos Aires.

The crane climber stopped to go up heavy beams of steel cincado to elevate the foil panels that they would begin to you give him the form that the designer dreamt in the drawing board.

In the other sectors of the Park they began to already be proven the attractions armed. For the first time the characteristic sounds of the games, buzzings and snorts of air of the pneumatic pistons could be listened. The soft journey of the Russian splendid mountain Aconcagua was continued by the attentive view of the engineers in charge of the armed of this, and the amazed look of the workers. The attraction Scorpion began to give its first turns and to make its first swingings in Argentinean floor. The powerful stampede of the jets of water leaving for the nozzles of the source of Musical Waters startled to but of a distracted one that was close, as well as him toward the whistle of vapor of the locomotive of the train that the perimeter of the Park travels.

In each attraction there was an or but cranes that moved with caution, since the cables of Aerogondolas were spread and they were already testeando the journey.

From the almost finished Tower already could it turns the scaffolds of the cinema Imax that seemed a minuscule one at the distance