Montevideo, UR

This project was organized around the historic restoration and adaptive reuse of the abandoned 19th-century Estacion General Artigas train station, several maintenance and administrative buildings, and the original station-master’s building, plus the development of the rail yards totaling approximately 15 acres. 

Our schematic design solution included:

• adaptive reuse of the train station for government offices, rental office space, restaurants and shops, and an interactive science center;
• adaptive reuse of the maintenance and administrative buildings as live/work residential units and retail;
• a 300 room hotel with 50 residential condominium units; 
• a conference and expo center;
• a ten-story residential condominium/mixed-use building;
• underground parking for 1,000 cars and all services and utilities;
• a 5.4 acre public, open plaza for the city. 
  
  

This work was done with Abraham Bloch Architect as BlochShapiro Architects.