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National Library of Argentina

The National Library of Argentina is the country’s largest library in Buenos Aires and one of the best-known brutalist works associated with Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich, and Alicia Cazzaniga.

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1992

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

National library

library civic building cultural building concrete glass National library

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National Library of Argentina gallery

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Seed wave 45 image for the National Library of Argentina.

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Clorindo Testa

1923-2013 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Clorindo Testa was an Italian-Argentine architect and artist, widely regarded as one of the central figures of Argentine brutalism and postwar public architecture.

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