The Gran Rex is a theater located on the north sidewalk of Avenida Corrientes (No. 857), less than 200 meters from the Obelisk of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This is the theater of the great musicals and hosts the most acclaimed artists nationally and internationally. Its capacity is 3,300 seats.
The building, owned by Cordero, Cavallo and Lautaret SA and completed in 1937, after just seven months, is an exponent rationalist architectural style, designed by architect Alberto Prebisch, the same that created the Obelisk of Buenos Aires, and civil engineer Adolfo T. Moret.
In its early days had loudspeakers in the lobby that allowed viewers to call their cars, which were in the station located more than 200 cars in two basements. He also owned a bar that occupied three floors, a bowling and billiards in the basement.
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The structure was made of reinforced concrete and the roof of the hall metal trusses.
The imposing facade is a single large rectangle covered in Roman travertine stone unpolished and lacking in ornamentation, with a large glazed surface that shows the interior of the building to people passing through the village, and is cut in half by a thin beam held up by turnbuckles round in gilded bronze-coated iron.
The interior is similarly rationalist, and the hall has a double set of stairs designed to empty the room quickly and a set of lifts that connect to the depot.
Has an asymmetrical room, a result of having been built on uneven ground. Therefore, is disposed at an angle to the front line.
This room is a great shell divided into strips overlapped application, inspired by Radio City in New York. The materials are Botticcino Italian marble, plaster, plywood and bronze. Viewers are arranged in three levels: Stalls, first balcony and second balcony. Both the seats and the curtains and carpets were original land burnt sienna color, and the walls were painted with tempera slightly reddish ocher.
