Buenos Aires: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  Estudio Botteri-Connell

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Houses

• Lead Architects

  Sofía Botteri Cappa, Patricio Connell

• Area

  180.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

Vienna, Austria has been ranked as the city with the best quality of life in the world for ten consecutive years. The ranking made by multinational consultancy Mercer is dominated by Western European cities in the highest positions, while Vancouver, Canada reached third place, becoming the highest-ranking city in North America for the last 10 years.

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• Architects

  BAAG

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Classrooms

• Architect in Charge

  Griselda Balian, Gabriel Monteleone, Gaston Noriega, Maria Emilia Porcelli.

• Area

  360.0 m2

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Federico Kulekdjian

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• Architects

  Ignacio Szulman arquitecto

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Houses Interiors

• Architects in Charge

  Ignacio Szulman, Valentín Pedroza

• Area

  130.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Francisco Nocito

ELEMENTAL, the architecture office led by Alejandro Aravena, has proposed a solution to the physical integration of Villa 31 in the city of Buenos Aires. The building includes a raised linear park that aims to be the new headquarters for the Southern Cone of the Inter-American Development Bank Group and to facilitate access of the residents of the neighborhood to other areas of the city.

Learn more about the project, below.

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• Architects

  Unoencinco Arquitectura

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Houses

• Architect in Charge

  Unoencinco Arquitectura

• Area

  136.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Lucia Triolo

The grays of concrete and pollution are not the only representation of cities and towns in the Americas. As perfect postcard material, many cities in the new world express the vibrancy of the people and places through color. HAUS, ArchDaily's partner, has selected five of these cities, which show us how color can bring light to the day-to-day life of cities.

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• Architects

  FRAM arquitectos, JES

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Renovation

• Area

  50.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Fernando Schapochnik

The downtown skyline of a city is perhaps its most symbolic feature. The iconic cityscapes that we know and love are typically formed by skyscrapers, but much of the surrounding context is made up of other high-rise buildings. Yes, there is a difference between a skyscraper and a high-rise. Research company Emporis defines a high-rise as a building at least 35 meters (115 feet) or 12 stories tall. These high-rise buildings play a major role in the more sprawled urban context of larger cities today.

Read on for Emporis' list of the 20 cities in the world with the most high-rises. You might be surprised by which cities made the cut.

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• Architects

  Felipe Gonzalez Arzac arquitecto

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Houses

• Lead Architect

  Felipe gonzalez arzac

• Design Team

  Valentin Ayala / Juan Bordone

• Area

  190.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Javier Agustin Rojas

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French designer, Nathanaël Abeille's metalized pieces in 'Proyecto Reflexión' shows how a building could reflect sunlight and share it with another building in some of the narrow spaces of Villa 21 de Barracas, Buenos Aires. These "metal bricks" came about as a combined team effort with architects Francisco Ribero and journalist Cecilia Fortunato.

Review the full project after the break.

Even in the age of instant information, museums enthrall us. Lining the tourist guidebooks of cities across the world, art museums are a must-see destination for visitors and locals alike. However, as our methods of communication and archiving change, driven by science and innovation, historic institutions such as art museums must keep up.

In cities around the world, art museums are redefining themselves to respond to the contemporary, experimental demands of the 21st-century. In Buenos Aires, the architecture of art museums showcases a diverse catalog of form, materiality and atmosphere, blending the instant, flexible demands of the modern age with a historic role of archiving some of humanity's most evocative works.

Below, we paint a picture of Buenos Aires' diverse art museums, showcasing the changing nature of exhibition architecture in one of the world’s most energetic cities.

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• Architects

  Arqtipo

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Residential

• Architect in Charge

  Estudio Arqtipo

• Area

  360.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Federico Kulekdjian

Relatively unknown outside his home country, Clorindo Testa (December 10, 1923 – April 11, 2013) was one of Argentina’s most important 20th-century architects. Consistently defying categorization, Testa had a hand in two of Buenos Aires’ most iconic buildings, the Bank of London and South America, and the National Library, as well as many others throughout his long career. Characteristically enigmatic, Testa would only ever acknowledge Le Corbusier as an influence, saying, “I never paid attention to other architects.” As a former colleague Juan Fontana described, Testa spoke the language of brutalism with an Argentine accent.

• Architects

  Dieguez Fridman

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Apartments

• Author Architects

  Tristán Dieguez, Axel Fridman

• Area

  1977.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015