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Actualizado: Aug 8th, 2005 - 13:55:36 |
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By
Dragutin Dimitrijevic Apis
Feb 24, 2005, 08:19 |
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Central station the Central station was inaugurated the 14 of September of 1857, when Chile was a young republic that fought to consolidate its autonomy like nation. In that then, two brick buildings accompanied the four existing platforms in the outskirts by Santiago. All place setting by two curved ceilings and surrounded in three by its flanks by a wood arcade, where the ticket offices and offices of the company lodged. The present structure corresponds to the third terminal station raised in that site, ordered in 1896 to the arsenal of well-known French architect Gustave Eiffel. Four years later, the assembly of the monumental metallic structure of 48 meters wide finished, 158 meters in length and 20 meters of stop. Their imposing 16 arcs give form to the vault and end in a decorative frontal arc, that maintains a clock in its peak. Until some years ago the sector very it was deteriorated, however, thanks to a remodeling project, product in an agreement between the real estate Stroll of the Station, the Ferrocarriles Company of the State and the I. Municipalidad of Central station, that granted the concession of the sector to the company deprived by a period of 30 years, the area recovered great part of its patrimony constructing a seat in frontis of the enclosure and the implementation of a citizen security system. In 1993 the idea was developed to give a espacialidad to the commercial centers, with good corridors, the commercial premises, was located the Terminal of Bus San Borja. Also the sector was put a roof on, qualifying seats of food, zones of games, rooms of cinema, parking giving him to it the present quality of mall. The commercial center is divided in two separated sectors by the central ship of the station. In the side the west, that receives most of those who go to the terminal, the location of the premises is almost linear and has relief spaces to gather the peatonal traffic. The other has a more relaxed commercial activity. In the outskirts of the Central station, the original idea was the one to rescue the district and to make a space more human, the old thing and the contemporary was united, to give to form to a remodeling of 9,000 meters of sidewalks and roads, that the urban scale of the great station with the peatonal conciliates, obtaining efficient circulations in a traffic zone dense but, amiable and continuous. In frontis of the station one every day stays an artistic seat with entretenciones and activities, with illumination, access to the meter, harmonizing the contemporary facade with the elements of the sector. It is an interesting project, since thanks to a private initiative have been able to recover a National monument, giving renewed east public space to the city generating a zone of recycling towards the sides.
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