Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Clorindo Testa

Leonardo Finotti

2014

A chromogenic print by Leonardo Finotti that frames an interior view of the Bank of London and South America’s atrium, using a monolithic concrete stair and glass facade to explore the tension between solid architecture and urban permeability.

What strikes you is the heavy triangular concrete volume cut by sharp diagonal shadows, set inside a precise grid of mullioned glass that reveals a blurred street beyond, making the space feel both monumental and oddly open to the city.

The photograph belongs to a lineage of architectural photography that makes visible the formal logic and social role of modernist commercial buildings, showing how material, structure, and transparency shaped civic and financial space in 20th‑century cities.

Palette

Exhibitions

Latin American Architecture Since 1945

1955

Transformations in Modern Architecture

1979

The Architecture of Luis Barragán

1976

Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

1949