Abasto Hotel, Five-star hotel in Balvanera, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Abasto Hotel is a five-star hotel in Balvanera, Buenos Aires, opened in 2000. Architect Gerardo Manduca designed a postmodern tower on a base holding the public spaces; Ricardo Williams and Diana Kremer gave the interiors a tango theme built on traditional filete painting and art deco. The tower holds 126 rooms, narrowing pyramid-style so the upper floors of each section have only two rooms.

The hotel opened on 23 March 2000 as the Holiday Inn Select Abasto, an $18 million project backed by paper company Ixia S.A. and Felipe Tenembaun's Concred, with President Fernando de la Rúa at the inauguration. In November 2000 the Astor Piazzolla hall was unveiled by the composer's widow, Laura Escalada. The Holiday Inn contract ended in early 2003, when it became Abasto Plaza Hotel, taking its current name in 2010.

The hotel's tango theme runs through its interiors, where architects Ricardo Williams and Diana Kremer adapted the traditional filete painted line to an art deco look. The two top suites are named "Mi Buenos Aires Querido" and "El día que me Quieras", after tangos sung by Carlos Gardel. On the first floor, a mural by Mexican artists Marta Martínez Flores and Gabriela Grajeda Robledo shows the old iron-and-zinc-roofed market as it was around 1900.

The property offers conference and event spaces on site that can be used for business meetings or private celebrations. Staff members help coordinate and implement plans when organizing gatherings at the location.

The two top suites are named "Mi Buenos Aires Querido" and "El día que me Quieras", after tangos sung by Carlos Gardel. On the first floor, Mexican artists Marta Martínez Flores and Gabriela Grajeda Robledo painted a mural of the old iron-and-zinc Abasto Market as it looked in the early 1900s.