Located in Puerto Madero neighborhood, Santiago Calatrava’s “Puente De La Mujer” (Bridge Of The Woman) is the architect’s only work in South America and it was built in 2001. The bridge is 335-foot-long broken up into three sections, two static and one that can rotate 90 degrees to allow water traffic to pass through. The bridge’s weight rests upon its central support, in which motors are located allowing the bridge to rotate. The most beautiful thing about the design process was the fact that the architect, after listening Tango music from Argentina, used it to inform the design; It represents the man laying towards the woman, in a horizontal position while dancing Tango! Gardel would be proud. Fernando

This is obviously not the building that looks necessarily pretty in the photos, and I don’t think it should. Le Corbusier, arguably the most influential architect of the 20th century designed and built this house/office between 1949 and 1955, at the time when he was working in the most important and published projects of his entire career. Although eclipsed by his bigger projects, Le Curutchet house is a representation of his paradigmatic principles of modern architecture and his concept of the house as a machine for living “La maison est une machine à habiter”. To understand his revolutionary thinking, we need to put ourselves in the late 1940’s and compare the technical and plastic characteristics of this building with the ones practiced in residential projects of that time. The entry is an framed empty space that defines and clearly shows th entry, in a minimalistic way if you want. It floats in a plane that has been decomposed and shows the pilotis, the free plan, continuous horizontal window or fenêtre en longueur, roof garden, and free façade; The project also used curved walls, skylights in the bathrooms, sliding doors, brise-soleils, a ramp, an open staircase, an insulating wall, and areas with a double height. Love modern architecture history? You have to check this out! Fernando

El puente de la Mujer, diseñado por el arquitecto español Santiago Calatrava se convierte en uno de los nuevos íconos para la pujante renovación de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Ubicado en el Dique N° 3 del Antiguo Puerto Madero, es una escultura de uso arquitectónico para el transeúnte desprevenido de la moderna Buenos Aires. Jorge