Designer/Developer Builds New Buenos Aires Arts District ‘From Scratch’

Fashion designer-turned-real estate magnate Alan Faena is creating “a sort of Shoreditch-by-the-River-Plate for culture-starved Argentines” in the waterfront neighborhood of Puerto Madero. The district already has a new visual art center; there are plans for a hotel by Philippe Starck, a residential complex designed by Norman Foster, and “parks, cultural centres and an artist residency.”