Last night the Mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri, inaugurated the Metropolitan Center of Design (CMD) along with Francisco Cabrera, BA’s Minister of Economic Development, and Enrique Avogadro, the Director of Creative Industries for GCBA.
A former fish market, the CMD encompasses 150,000 square feet in the up-and-coming barrio of Barracas. The CMD will eventually house government offices dedicated to promoting the country’s design and creative industries and serve as a place of community support for the design, music, editorial, audiovisual, and fashion industries.
The modern, industrial architecture of the center provides the perfect backdrop for the promotion and development of design as a tool for innovation and the unification of design and industry, a task that should be achieved easily in UNESCO’s first City of Design. The packed Inauguration last night included a fashion show with some of Buenos Aires’ biggest designers (Jessica Trosman, Pablo Ramirez, Martin Churba, Kostume), a concert featuring Facundo Agudin, and a video retrospective of Argentine design from 2000-2010.
The Centro Metropolitano de Diseño is located at Algarrobo 1041, Barracas. For more information about Argentina art, culture, fashion and design, download the new issue of InvestBA Privada.







