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andresalvador > Quinco Health Center, James Stewart Polshek, Architect
andresalvador > Quinco Health Center, James Stewart Polshek, Architect
andresalvador > Quinco Health Center, James Stewart Polshek, Architect
andresalvador > Quinco Health Center, James Stewart Polshek, Architect
andresalvador > Centro Cultural Metropolitano A view of one of the stairway from the covered atrium. The outstanding Centro Cultural Metropolitano was the first restoration work undertaken in the old town. Opened in 2000, it became an island of cultural activity and the impetus behind the old town's renovation. It houses several temporary art exhibits and hosts excellent art shows on the main interior patio (covered atrium). Along with two more interior patios and two beautiful roof top terraces, it houses an auditorium, a library and a pleasant café. A visitor can wander freely within the premises. This building is rich in history. It was supposedly the pre-Hispanic site of one of the Inca Atahualpa's palaces. A Jesuit school from 1597 to 1767, it then became a cuartel (army barracks). In 1809 royalist forces imprisoned a group of revolutionaries here and gruesomely murdered them a year later. The grisly act is memorialized in a wax exhibit in the on-site Museo Alberto Mena Caamaño (admission additional around US$1 ). Information taken from http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/ecuador-and-the-galapagos-islands/quito/sights/1000176061
andresalvador > Centro Cultural Metropolitano A view of the corridor flanking the atrium on the first floor.
andresalvador > Centro Cultural Metropolitano A view of the library.
andresalvador > Centro Cultural Metropolitano Our tour group oggles the glass covered atrium.
andresalvador > Centro Cultural Metropolitano A banner hangs inside the covered atrium.
Quinco Health Center, James Stewart Polshek, Architect
andresalvador > Quinco Health Center, James Stewart Polshek, Architect
Quinco Health Center, James Stewart Polshek, Architect
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