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Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina
Clorindo Testa, Alicia D. Cazzanica, Francisco Bullrich | |
| location | Buenos Aires |
| function | library |
| contributed by | hjweststrate |
The National Library of the Argentinean Republic was founded September 1810. In 1960, according to law 12.351, the library got the permission to construct a new building on three hectares in the area enclosed by Avenida Libertador San Martin and Las Heras and the streets Agüero and Austria. A national competition was organised to select the architect, won in 1961 by Clorinda Testa, Alicia D. Cazzanica and Francisco Bullrich. The building however, was not inaugurated until 1993. The library is built in the Brutalist Style, exposing an excessive amount of concrete. The public library is situated in a volume lifted on top of four concrete cores, each containing 13 piles with a diameter of 1.2 metre. The view from the interior of the library towards the city of Buenos Aires is magnificent. The book deposit, a school for librarians and the machine room are located in the basement.
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