Hospital Naval Explained

Hospital Naval
Org/Group:	Argentine Navy
Coordinates:	-34.6053°N -58.4331°W
Location:	Caballito, Buenos Aires
Country:	Argentina
Funding:	Argentine government
Type:	Military hospital
Opened:	1947

Hospital Naval is a building in the Caballito section of Buenos Aires designed by architect Clorindo Testa in 1977. Serving Argentine Navy personnel and facing Parque Centenario, the institution was established in 1947, and its current, modernist building was inaugurated in 1981.^[1] The 30,000 m² (320,000 ft²) hospital is one of the best-known examples of brutalist architecture in Argentina.^[2]

External links

• Web site: Hospital Naval Buenos Aires. Hospital Naval. July 4, 2020.
• Web site: Architecture of Hospital Naval. Clorindo Testa. Architectuul.
• Web site: Naval Hospital in Buenos Aires. Wiki arquitectura.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hospital Naval: historia . es.
2. Web site: Clorindo Testa: painter, architect, teacher (Clorindo Testa: pintor, arquitto, maestro). El Día. 9 September 2008.