VILO Tower Buenos Aires office building design, Corporación América Argentina commercial property photos

VILO Tower in Buenos Aires

8 October 2025

Architects: Rafael Viñoly Architects

Location: Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America

Photos: Daniela Mac Adden

VILO Tower, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Argentina

Rafael Viñoly Architects announces the completion of the VILO Tower, a 16-story Class A office building and the new headquarters for Corporación América, one of the world’s largest airport operators.

Located on Avenida del Libertador in Buenos Aires, the 13,875-square-foot development was conceived as both a headquarters and a framework for adaptability, transparency, and civic presence, exemplifying the late Rafael Viñoly’s commitment to structural clarity and civic responsibility in what is his final contribution to the city. See here for photos of the VILO Tower.

The project is made up of four fully glazed facades, a statement of precision and lightness articulated by curved glass corners free of visible mullions that dissolve the interior/exterior boundary, rising seamlessly from the ground to the sky. Oversized glass panels extend continuously across the tower’s 60-meter elevation.

“In designing VILO Tower, Rafael Viñoly succeeded in creating an architecture of transparency and rationality. It elegantly dialogs with its surroundings and gives its occupants the greatest layout flexibility,” said Román Viñoly, Partner at Rafael Viñoly Architects. “The building marks my father’s final contribution to the city that gave him his start as an architect. The way the design reveals its hybrid structural system is a hallmark of our firm’s commitment to putting logic at the center of architectural expression.”

The building’s hybrid structure includes a traditional concrete building (core, columns, and slabs) with a two-story module, creating interstitial floors. A sculptural, transparent scissor stair frees the core, encouraging connectivity and interaction. The double-height system with suspended mezzanines creates intermediate levels, maximizing usable area and producing both flexible and spatially varied floor plates. Structural ingenuity is a visible part of the architectural concept, with exposed steel tension rods and perimeter concrete beams.

With high-performance double-glazed windows, solar panels for on-site energy generation, low-water-consumption fixtures, LED lighting, and a comprehensive building management system to manage resource use, the building is expected to achieve LEED v4 Core and Shell Gold certification.

At street level, the tower engages the city with a dramatic triple-height base envisioned as an urban greenhouse designed to house a restaurant and other public uses. A sweeping, cantilevered spiral stair descends from the street-level entry into the lower public level, establishing a powerful visual and spatial link between the city and the building’s interior. Employee amenities include a rooftop terrace with city and river views, bicycle racks, locker rooms, and showers.

Located adjacent to the Mitre railway and near the Río de la Plata, the site required complex subterranean strategies to minimize disruption. The foundation systems were engineered to stabilize surrounding infrastructure and manage water intrusion, and the core positioned against the railway to create an acoustic buffer while keeping river views unobstructed. Low-iron glass ribs with structural slabs ensure the façade’s performance against wind pressure and create a transparent envelope of exceptional refinement — an achievement previously unprecedented in Buenos Aires.

VILO Tower in Buenos Aires, Argentina – Building Information

Architect of Record and Lead Designer: Rafael Viñoly Architects – https://www.vinoly.com/

Structural Engineer: Curutchet del Villar
MEP / FP Engineer: GNBA
Lighting Designer: Cappiello + Partners
Construction Manager: Amarilla

About Rafael Viñoly Architects

Founded in 1983 by the late, world-renowned designer Rafael Viñoly, Rafael Viñoly Architects is headquartered in New York City and has successfully delivered over 180 completed buildings across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Working for private, civic, and government clients, in almost every typology, scale, and level of complexity, the firm’s consistent focus on pushing every project to enrich the public realm is the common thread that unites its vast and diverse portfolio. The firm’s work is marked by a sustained structural originality that transcends the passing fads of architectural movements, and it is consistently driven by the belief that the essential responsibility of the architect is to ensure resiliency by optimizing investment on the long time scales characteristic of construction projects.

Rafael Viñoly Architects’ iconic, award-winning buildings include the Tokyo International Forum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, NYU Abu Dhabi Campus in the UAE, 432 Park Avenue in New York, Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, in Philadelphia, the New Stanford Hospital, 20 Fenchurch Street in London, among many others. A few of the firm’s current works-in-progress include Cipriani Resort, Residences & Casino Punta del Este, and the most environmentally sustainable project in all Latin America, Médano by Viñoly, in Uruguay.