Remarkable buildings in Buenos Aires

Alas building

Address: Viamonte (y Av. Leandro Alem) 153 - San NicolásUno de los símbolos de las construcciones monumentales y racionalistas del gobierno peronista que marcaron los proyectos urbanísticos de la década del ´40. It constitutes one of the symbols of the...

Navy Center

Address: Av. Córdoba (y Florida) 599 - San NicolásThis majestic building that distinguishes the corner of Cordoba Avenue and Florida St., had its origin in the request for proposal sent out in 1911 for the construction of its social venue,...

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...

Casa Mínima (The Minimal House)

Address: Pasaje San Lorenzo 380 - San TelmoThis is the tiniest house in the city; its measures are 2.20 meters by 13. This may be the only architectonic remnant that reminds of the conditions in which the slaves lived. It...

Former House of Currency Stamping

Address: Defensa 628 - San TelmoIt is the work of the engineer Eduardo Castillo. This building was inaugurated in 1877, with a very noticeable Italian classicist style. It had a part of the building dedicated to administration and it also...

Liniers’ House

Address: Venezuela 469 - San Telmo It dates back from 1788 and it is the only colonial house in the San Telmo neighborhood and it is one of the very few authentic houses in the city of Buenos Aires. This...

Nuestra Señora del Rosario Basilica and Santo Domingo Convent

Address: Belgrano y Defensa s/n - MonserratThis is one of the basilica that better preserves the original structure with its Jesuit three nave floor, its two towers and chapels on each side that have a wood-carved altarpiece. It was inaugurated...

Jorge Luis Borges House

Address: Jorge Luis Borges 2135 - PalermoThis is the exact location where the writer lived between the ages of two and fifteen (1901-1914). It also kept the famous Borges’s Library, which belonged to his father and is present all through...

Nuestra Señora del Pilar Basilica

Address: Junín 1904 - RecoletaLocated in the most privileged area of the city, this is one of the few colonial constructions that are still standing. It dates back to 1716, when the Spanish Governor ordered its construction for the Order...

Faculty of Law

Address: Av. Figueroa Alcorta 2263 - RecoletaThe School of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires University was founded in 1821, and has had the current venue since 1949. It is an imposing Doric building with a classicist structure that...