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    While Miami Beach is renowned for its Art Deco architecture, the city of Miami also boasts an outstanding example in the Alfred I. DuPont Building.  Its website, http://www.alfredidupontbuilding.com/html/aboutUs.htm, indicates it opened on December 25, 1939 and calls it Miami's only Art Deco skyscraper.  It is 17 stories, designed by the architectural firm of Marsh and Saxelbye.  Shown here is the doorway on East Flagler Street.

    The 29-story Edificio Kavanagh in Buenos Aires, built between 1934 and in 1936, was the tallest building in Latin America and the tallest concrete construction skyscraper in the world upon completion.  It helped establish Buenos Aires as an international city of style and sophistication.