Obelisco de Buenos Aries

Buenos Aires' most popular landmark, El Obelisco The Obelisk reaches out from the city's midsection like a monster pencil – standing gladly erect as the informal focus, image and encouraging purpose of this sprawling city.

Since its development in 1936, it has endured what's coming to it is of allegorical good and bad times, yet has remained a strong reference point for Argentines.

It might appear like a genuinely uncomplicated bit of design which yells out a country's excitement to grasp its own particular virility, however, on nearer assessment, The Obelisk conveys ious diverse subtexts.

It was composed by Alberto Prebisch, an observed Tucuman pioneer designer of German parentage, to recognize Buenos Aires' 400th commemoration.