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The Buenos Aires Central Post and Communications Office is a public building and landmark in the San Nicolás district of Buenos Aires. The building's eclectic design, drawing prominently from French Second Empire architecture, was typical of the public buildings and upscale real estate built in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities early in the 20th Century. The building was designated a National Historic Monument in 1997. Most of its postal activities had been transferred to a newer structure during the Perón administration, and it handled only international mail in later years; in 2005, its last remaining postal bureau was closed. President Néstor Kirchner proposed the landmark's conversion into a cultural center that June, and two years later, plans were approved for the construction of two concert halls and an exhibition gallery for the creation of the Bicentennial Cultural Center. The center's winning design was provided by a team of architects led by siblings Enrique, Federico and Nicolás Bares, and it's scheduled for its inaugural on the bicentennial of the May Revolution, May 25, 2010.