PUERTO MADERO SKYLINE,  

Buenos
Aires, Argentina, Puerto Madero
Argentine government decided to build a new
residential and commercial district to replace city's
old port and docks. More than 50 skyscrapers have
been built in the last 20 years.

Goals and/or Objectives of the urban

redevelopment, revitalization, reconstruction, and/or renewal, etc.
The main objective was to urbanize 170 hectares of land formerly belonging almost entirely to
the national General Administration of Ports (AGP, for its name in Spanish, Administración
General de Puertos). The regeneration of Puerto Madero was touted as a pilot for Argentina’s
state reform due to the area’s visibility. The project would regenerate the port area into higher-
value land use and would also help revitalize the central business district. Puerto Madero was
conceived as a catalytic project that would overcome years of disinvestment in the Buenos Aires
CBD and change the public’s perception of the downtown area.

The idea of developing Puerto Madero’s vacant area was not new. All planning efforts for the
city since the 1960s had included ideas about new uses for this centrally located land. However,
none of these plans had ever been executed because there were too many administrative and
financial challenges which prevented implementation, most notably, with regard to transfer of
federal land to the private sector. The creation of a quasi-private organization to take ownership
of the vacant land and oversee its development would facilitate mixed-use development with
commercial, educational and recreational aspects.

 Photo depicting the change - showing before and after the project.