Park Hyatt Buenos Aires

The Palacio Duhau - Park Hyatt Buenos Aires is a 5 -star hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. It is located on Avenida Alvear 1661 in the Recoleta district.

Overview

Alejandro Hume, an Argentine of British descent, who had arrived with the railway to prosperity, was a piece of land on what is now Avenida Alvear, for which he was design by architect Carlos Ryder a house. Only recently, had Mayor Torcuato de Alvear broaden the hitherto known as Camino Bella Vista Road and renew. The house was completed in 1890, 1913 committed the family landscape architect Carlos Thays, to make the garden behind the house.

In the 1920s, the property was sold to the Duhau family. The Duhaus, known landowners who commissioned the architect Leon Dourge to build a home for them in the vicinity of the Hume - house. Inspired by the Château du Marais in the environs of Paris, designed Dourge a Palacio in the neoclassical style and a guest house, both of which were completed in 1932. However, the siblings Duhau attracted sometime around in the Hume House, died in 1976 and the last of them. The Palacio himself stood empty until 2002, when the local contractor Juan Scalesciani bought the whole property and entered into a collaboration with the Hyatt Group. These planned for the site a new hotel to replace the location in the Retiro district, this hotel, which was sold to the Four Seasons hotel chain in 2002.

Park Hyatt Buenos Aires opened on 12 July 2006 - After investment of 74 million U.S. $ and numerous delays regarding privacy to the adjacent Embassy of the Vatican, the Palacio Duhau was. The Palacio itself, where many original details remain intact, has 11 rooms and 12 suites. The new extension, located at the eastern end of the garden, has 115 rooms and 27 suites.