"El Congreso" (the Congress), is located between Entre Ríos and Rivadavia avenues, and the streets Hipólito Yrigoyen and Combate de los Pozos, in the neighborhood of "Balvanera".
In 1889 the President Miguel Juárez Celman proposed to the "Intendente Alvear" to build up this building in this actual site.
In 1895 it was realized a project contest and the winner was the italian architect Víctor Meano.
In 1898 the works began; due to the death of Meano, concluded the task Julio Dormal, who also made the final ornamentation and the inner decoration.
The building was inaugurated in 1906, but just in 1946 it was concluded definitively.
It is located at the opposit end to the Casa Rosada (Pink House) and culminating the civic axis of the Avenida de Mayo. Its great cupola of 80 meters height, made of bronze, it is formed by a structure of metallic caps whose resolution was a technical step for the time it was built.
Designed in the Italian Academicism style, of the aims of century XIX, the building is had completely in gray limestone stone, with granite plinth. It uses all the resources of the clasicist decoration, arranged in a not very common density.
The facade ends in a scultoric "quadriga", made by the venetian Victor de Pol. The wide front displays a central corintian porch, elevated with two symmetrical inclines for vehicles.
