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The Architect · Julieta · Buenos Aires

Biblioteca Nacional

Recoleta · Brutalist library · Free

This is the building that made me an architect. Testa put the heavy part in the air and gave the ground back to the city. I never got over it.

Clorindo Testa's concrete library, its reading rooms lifted on four huge legs so a park runs beneath.

— Julieta, The Architect
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