Two sides of the street in my barrio

Walking down Malabia, a street in my barrio of Palermo Soho, I noticed a fancy iron gate. Most of the buildings here are nondescript apartment buildings, so I looked through the gate and saw the following gorgeous old building:


So I took a couple pictures, and thought to myself, such a lovely old building, it's nice living in an old part of town. Then I turned around and looked across the street and saw this:


And so I was nicely reminded, as if I needed reminding, that BA is constantly juxtaposing the modern and the traditional. It's part of the vitality of a great city, you build newer and bigger, but you keep the gems from the past.

Or at least you hope to. As anyone who has lived in a city knows, one person's gems are another's tear-downs.