Abasto de Buenos Aires

This guide to Abasto de Buenos Aires traces one address through two very different lives: nearly a century as the chaos of a wholesale produce market that opened in 1893, and its second act as something built for a child's daydream. You'll hear how the city gave the market a proper art deco home in 1934, designed by Viktor Sulcic and two partners who soon after raised the terraces of La Bombonera, and how the hall sat empty for over a decade after the market closed in 1984 before reopening in 1998. Upstairs from where fruit crates once landed, the Museo de los Niños now turns two floors into a miniature city where kids drive a bus, staff a bank counter, or work behind a pretend pharmacy window.