Metropolitan Design Center
SHOPS-Buenos Aires. Metropolitan Design Center (WDC) located in Villarino 2498, on the south side of town BsAs, is under the Directorate General of Creative Industries and Trade of the City of Buenos Aires, which gesture and organizes one of the most promising festivals these days, in terms of creative design. The recently-conditioned building created in 2001 to be in the future if an epicenter for design in general, away from more central or remote dedicated centers of the most established and therefore more established, which have fallen more speculation trade in principle and more recently over speculation "snobs" which takes away most refreshing character and above all, purposeful.
International Design Festival (IDF) to take out a second time, between 22 and 31 October this year in the building of the CMD, and tours of the entire city. It is intended under the theme "Design for All" a couple of months ago openly called businesses, professionals and institutions to participate in the International Design Festival that seeks to promote design as a competitive tool for the company. While the IDF is relatively new in the cultural agenda is now in its second edition, the first Festival was held in October 2006 brought together more than 150 designers from all disciplines and was visited by More than 30,000 people, which showed local design through export containers displaying product samples near the port.
The IDF intends to exhibitions, lectures, installations, fashion shows, product launches, shows, debates, workshops, exhibitions, competitions, street circuits, among other activities. You can perform the "Design Cities Summit" involving representatives of the cities designated by UNESCO as a city of design. About
CMD building. was constituted as such after being called to national competition and the Central Society of Architects established the ruling on December 17, 2001 the winners of the National Preliminary Plans for the enhancement of the former Fish Market building, now "Metropolitan Design Center" to the architecture studio led by architect Gaston Flores.
