# Biblioteca Nacional de la Republica Argentina by Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich & Alicia Cazzaniga

photograph by Baobee

I was recently writing about Jorge Luis Borges as director of the National Library of the Argentine Republic (see previous post); here is the current building that hosts the Biblioteca Nacional in Buenos Aires.
It was designed in 1961 by Clorindo Testa, Francisco Bullrich & Alicia Cazzaniga, yet only started to built in 1971 and eventually opened in...1992.


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