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The Architect · Julieta · Buenos Aires

Edificio Kavanagh

Retiro · Art deco tower · Free

I bring students here to see how a building sets its own back so light can reach the flats below. It's still teaching, ninety years on.

A 1936 stepped concrete skyscraper — one of South America's first, a rationalist cliff over Plaza San Martín.

— Julieta, The Architect
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