
National Library
Also known as Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno
1992
Brutalism
library
Designed in 1962 but not completed until three decades later, this brutalist library lifts its main reading rooms high above ground on massive concrete pilotis, leaving the park-level space open as a covered plaza. The reading rooms…
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- 1992
Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich, Alicia Cazzaniga
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