Manduca Market, Buenos Aires Building Development, Argentinan Architecture, Images
Manduca Market in Buenos Aires
18 Sep 2022
Architecture: Hitzig Militello Architects
Location: Paseo la Plaza. Av. Corrientes 1660, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America

Photos: Alejandro Peral
Manduca Market, Argentina
The Paseo la Plaza has always captivated us locals for its enigmatic urban space, whose language empathizes with the collective imaginary of the heterogeneous nature of a city, especially one like Buenos Aires.

As Manduca Market‘s name suggests, the prevailing emptiness, air and vegetation literally illustrate the identity of the square. Its alleys of cobblestones surround the theaters where each building has an identity that clearly emulates an old village. It is in this unique attribute so valued by the consumer where we analyze how we can integrate a new identity. An identity that should keep ?Paseo la Plaza: The Square? as the main protagonist and ?Manduca Market? as its necessarily integrated market.
This careful integration between both environments is translated into an element that we define with the name of ? metal strip?, one which constitutes the very identity of the market. It is a communication platform in itself and it conveys a contemporary, dynamic and integrated language throughout the entire length of its development. The Manduca plaza within the promenade also makes it a sustainable vegetation proposal.

The strategy has been to maintain the hetero...