The Calvet Building appears, to the left and behind the Post Office Palace
The Calvet Building was a large residential building that was located on Avenida Leandro N. Alem 401 (corner Corrientes Avenue), facing the Central Post Office of the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
It was designed by the architect Gastón Mallet for the "Calvet y Cía.", a French firm dedicated to the marketing of wines. It occupied the northeast corner of the intersection of Alem and Corrientes, and on the ground floor it housed the commercial premises of the firm Calvet. The apartments on the upper floors were owned by the winery, until the creation of the Horizontal Property Law in 1948.
The Calvet building was, together with the Stock Exchange projected by Alejandro Christophersen, the only constructions designed taking into account the original project of the Central Post Office, which envisaged a series of pedestrian bridges on Alem Avenue, with the purpose of avoiding the steep slope suffered by Corrientes and Sarmiento streets between 25 de Mayo and Alem streets. The bridges would lead directly to the height of the second floor of the Post Office. This proposal by the architect Maillart was never finalized, and the Post was just inaugurated, with many modifications of its original concept, in 1928.
The study of the architects Caffarini and Vainstein won a competition for the total remodeling of the Calvet building. In any case, it was demolished in the 1980s and today there is an open-air parking lot. Sources
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