11.12.2023
MODERNA BUENOS AIRES
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17.02.2016
The Guardian | The 10 best concrete buildings
4 | Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires
Clorindo Testa, 1966
The Italian-Argentinian architect Clorindo Testa wasn’t particularly interested in getting concrete to look light, at least from the outside, instead heaving it out of the ground into an extraordinary structure that has something of a dinosaur’s skeleton. Yet it still manages to achieve a civilised rapport with the neo-classical facades around it. It also forms a perforated carapace that filters sunlight to the interior and creates both enclosure and openness. It unexpectedly ends up having some of the qualities of a Japanese screen, if with considerable added tonnage.