Banco de la Nación

Buenos Aires


The main branch of the Banco de la Nación (1944) is the work of famed architect Alejandro Bustillo, who considered the building to be his best work – he planned it so obsessively that he built a precise plaster model. The building combines a number of architectural styles, from Greek columns to the 18th-century French motifs.

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