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The Ministry of Education and Culture through the National Cultural Heritage Commission declared the set of works by the Architect Rafael Lorente Escudero carried out for the Ancap refinery in La Teja a National Historical Monument.Ancap was created in 1931 when Uruguay considered an energy policy based on oil derivatives. Three years later work began on the installation of this refinery which became one of the first achievements of modern architecture being created for the most part by the architect Rafael Lorente.The president of Ancap Alejandro Stipanicic commented that this is a tribute to a person and the work of that person but it is also to the person who marked an era as an Ancap official as a person who working for the company left a legacy for the National Historical Heritage. He also added that it is a tribute to other architects who preserve the architectural richness of the refinery.Homage is paid to the people to those who conceived it to those who built it to those who protected them and cared for them over time added the MEC minister Pablo da Silveira.He also commented that in this case we are honoring a time in Uruguay or Uruguayans from a time when the construction of a building ... was seen as an opportunity to add value to the urban environment and our culture.The refinery was thought of as a functional asset ... and Lorente thought of it based on an architecture of excellence very committed to the times in which he lived. That made it to be chosen to be part of our best architectural heritage added the general director of the Nations Cultural Heritage Commission William Rey Aschifeld.This is a way of encountering our own history ... Looking at buildings valuing buildings is also coming into contact with that history and allowing us to give ourselves the gift that these different stories permanently enrich and fertilize us he concluded. Da Silveira.
