Tall & Urban News

Construction on Avenida Cordoba 120 is underway. The 35-story office tower located at a key junction between the traditional city center and the main entrance to Puerto Madero—the harbor area—will be a sustainable addition to the central district of the city, creating a unique new presence on the skyline.
 
David Summerfield, Head of Studio, Foster + Partners, said: “Avenida Cordoba 120 combines structure and nature to create a landmark building that will set a new benchmark for office buildings in the region. Through its materiality and spatial variety, it offers flexible workspaces for a range of companies, while enhancing its urban surroundings.”
 
The strategic site is at the crossroads between Avenida Cordoba, and Avenida Alem, two of the biggest thoroughfares in the city, and bound by Avenida Madero to the east. The triangular form of the building maximizes views towards the Rio de la Plata river and towards the dense city center, while the lift core located along the southern façade enables large, flexible, and spacious floorplans.
 
Seventy percent of the ground plan is open public space in the form of a garden that continues below the building, which is raised above an inviting café nestled within the landscape. The vegetation travels up in the form of triple-story terraces that create outdoor spaces for informal meetings throughout the tower. These seven terraces along with the five internal atria form the main organizing principle around which the office floor plates are designed. The offices are grouped together as a series of villages centred around these open spaces, allowing visual connections throughout different levels. The building features as many as twenty different plan variations based on four basic floorplates, allowing organizations unprecedented choice.
 
Featuring a raised entrance lobby, Avenida Cordoba 120 can be accessed by a promenade of terraced steps as well as by escalator banks to the east and the west. Using a restrained material palette of wood, fair-faced concrete and polished stainless steel, the lobby of the tower actively creates a welcoming atmosphere. The folded stainless-steel façade is designed around a picture frame principle that frames views out to the city below and reduces heat gain. 

For more on this story, go to Foster + Partners.