Remarkable buildings in Buenos Aires

Post Office Palace

Address: Leandro N. Alem y Corrientes s/n - San NicolásThe Main Post Office was projected at the end of the XIXth century, when the government intended to let the economic apogee show through the construction of modern buildings like this...

Buenos Aires Stock Exchange

Address: Sarmiento 299 - San NicolásThis monumental building influenced by the French classic style of the XVIII century, inspired and based on the Military Ministry of Paris, is a work of the architect Alejandro Christophersen. The allegorical sculptures and symbols...

Expo Centre La Rural

Address: Av. Sarmiento y Av. Santa Fe s/n - PalermoIt is the symbol of the agricultural and farm-cattle oligarchy of the Republic. It is popularly known as “La Rural”, because of the annual exhibition that involves this activity, among the...

Ex Boston Bank (now Standard Bank)

Address: Florida 99 - San NicolásThis building rises as the symbol of past times when, after World War I, the first north American companies came to the country with an interest in the wool market. This agency of the First...

Galileo Galilei Planetarium

Address: Av. Belisario Roldán y Av. Sarmiento s/n - PalermoThis is a five-story building with a top arched room with 360 seats. It has a semi-spherical dome of a 20-meter diameter, in whose center the planetarium proper projects a sky...

Fortabat Tower

Address: Bouchard 680 - San NicolásAnother symbol of modernity, with the stamp deemed intelligent building, a structure comprised by security, telephone and comfort of the latest cutting-edge technology. Inaugurated in 1993, it belongs to one of the greatest corporations of...

Embassy of Belgium

Address: Rufino de Elizalde 2830 - PalermoLocated right opposite Victoria Ocampo’s residence, it stands on Belgium Square. It was built by Alejandro Bustillo in 1930 for the Tornquist family to live. The façade displays complete symmetry, and corresponds with French...

El Ateneo Bookstore

Address: Florida 336 - San Nicolás This is a representative building of the French academicism that signed the urban profile of Buenos Aires in the 20s, dragging a past filled with artistic and cultural history. It was inaugurated in 1927,...

Victoria Ocampo’s house

Address: Rufino de Elizalde 2831 - PalermoThis is among the city’s first modern buildings of clear rationalist tendency, by the architect Alejandro Bustillo. It was built in 1929 for Victoria Ocampo, one of the great figures regarding literature and among...

Santa Catalina de Siena Church and Convent

Address: Viamonte 497 - San NicolásThe inauguration of this church dates from the year 1745. There, a congregation of nuns belonging to the Dominican order settled down. During the English Invasions, this building suffered the same fate as the churches...