This list of works by Rafael Viñoly categorizes the Uruguayan architect's work.
Completed
, Libertador 442, Retiro, Buenos Aires, 1983 Physical Education Facility, Lehman College, Bronx, New York, 1994 Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 1996 Bronx Housing Court, Bronx, New York, 1997 Princeton Stadium, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1998 Jongno Tower in Seoul, South Korea, 1999 Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 2000 The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001 Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2002 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002 Viñoly Tower, Gelly 3690, Palermo, Buenos Aires, 2002 Westgate Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2003 David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2003 Carl Icahn Laboratory, Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 2004 University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois, 2004 Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004 National Institutes of Health, John Edward Porter Neurosciences Research Center, Bethesda, Maryland, 2004 Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, New York, 2004 Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2005 Mahler 4 Office Tower, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2005 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, 2006 Wageningen University and Research Centre, Atlas Building, Wageningen, Netherlands, 2006 Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2007 Bronx County Hall of Justice, Bronx, New York, 2007 California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 2007 Curve, Leicester, England, 2008 Fortabat Museum, Olga Cossettini 141, Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, 2008 Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2008 (expansion) Edificio Acqua, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 2008 Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 2008 Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008 New Terminal at Carrasco International Airport, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2009 West Quad Building, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2009 City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture, New York City, 2009 Vdara Hotel & Spa at CityCenter, Paradise, Nevada, 2009
Institute for Regeneration Medicine Building, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 2010 The Gateway, Al Raha Beach Development, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2010 South Texas Research Facility, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 2010 Firstsite:newsite Colchester Visual Arts Facility, Colchester, England, 25 September 2011 University of Arizona Science Center, Tucson, Arizona, 2011 Claremont McKenna College, Kravis Center, Claremont, California, 2011 Madero Office Tower, Cecilia Grierson 355, Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, 2011 University of Chicago Medicine Center for Care and Discovery, Chicago, Illinois, 2012 Mina Zayed Waterfront Development, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2012 University of Oxford Master Plan and Mathematics Institute, Oxford, England, 2013 121st Police Precinct Stationhouse, Staten Island, New York 2013 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2013 (expansion) Novartis Building 3, East Hanover, New Jersey, 2013 20 Fenchurch Street, London, England, 2014 432 Park Avenue, New York, New York, 2015 Laguna Garzón Bridge, Uruguay, 2015 Cero+Infinito, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, 2019 Battersea Power Station Master Plan, London, England, 2020 The Bryanston, London, England, 2020 Frank J. Guarini Justice Complex, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2026
In progress
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Boston, Massachusetts, 2014 Henry A. Jordan Medical Education Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2014 University of South Carolina, Darla Moore School of Business, Columbia, South Carolina, 2014 125 Greenwich Street, New York, 2015-2019 The New Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California, 2015 1401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2015 Manchester City Football Club, Etihad Campus, 2012-2016 281 Fifth Avenue, a skyscraper in New York City NEMA Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2019
Major works
Argentina (1968–1979)
Chamber of Deputies (House of Representatives, or Edificio Anexo de la Cámara de Diputados), Buenos Aires (1966)
Here, in the seat of Argentina's federal government, Viñoly adroitly harmonized a new, modern building (three interconnected blocks containing the representatives' offices, committee meeting rooms, offices for political parties, and a town hall for public meetings) with the existing Chamber of Deputies, on which it sits, and the Congress Building directly across from it, both of which are neoclassical in style. "The highly reflective glass cladding minimizes heat loading on the new construction" and, wittily, "allows it to assume the stylistic qualities of the surrounding buildings", which rather than being upstaged by Viñoly's update "are made more powerful and imposing by their reflected images. The Congress Building in particular thus takes on a heightened presence."Müller, Lars. Viñoly, Rafael. Viñoly, Román. Rafael Viñoly, (Basel: Birkhäuser; New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), p. 107.
UIA (Designed 1968; completed 1974)
Designed in 1968 and completed in 1974, the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Industrial Union ( or UIA), the country's leading advocacy group for industrial manufacturers, helped establish Viñoly as a young architect to watch. According to the monograph Rafael Viñoly, El Edificio Carlos Pellegrini ("the Carlos Pellegrini Building") it marked the architect's "first success in a national design competition".Müller, Lars. Viñoly, Rafael. Viñoly, Román. Rafael Viñoly, (Basel: Birkhäuser; New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), p. 108. By day, the entry notes, the building's "glass curtain wall...provides staff and visitors spectacular views of the city and the port; at night, it becomes highly transparent, offering equally dramatic views in the opposite direction by revealing the spaces and activities within." The "120-meter-tall pure glass prism" (Rafael Viñoly), which served as UIA's headquarters until 2001, is now regarded as a distinguishing feature of the city's skyline.
Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires (1968)
To commemorate its 90th anniversary (more accurately, the anniversary of the bank's nationalization and transferral, in 1888, to the city), the Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires commissioned a new, more modern headquarters from MSGSSS. Built at breakneck speed by 1000 workers spread over three daily shifts in order to be ready for the building's planned opening in 1968, the project was completed in just six months. Inaugurated on 23 May 1968, the main office of the Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires employed a traffic-stoppingly innovative design: the extensive use of glass bricks (a modernist trademark) and a glazed panel that gave on pedestrian traffic, signifying institutional transparency as well as accessibility to all Argentinians, regardless of socioeconomic class. The building "quickly gained international recognition", writes R. Stephen Sennott, in the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, "for its transparent use of light and color and for its strong volumetric articulation".Sennott, R. Stephen. Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004), p. 815.
Rioja Housing Project (1969)
Commissioned in 1969 and completed in 1973, the Rioja Housing Complex () was developed by the Bank of the City of Buenos Aires as subsidized housing for 440 employee families. A mixed-use, high-density city within a city occupying 41,000 square meters (456,000 square feet), it incorporates commercial real estate, community spaces, and private residences in seven 18-story units clustered together and linked by 10 bridges to facilitate easy circulation. The design, as the authors of the monograph Rafael Viñoly point out, "combines high density with a layout meant to foster a strong sense of community. An open site allowing pedestrian traffic through most of its footprint creates a large public realm, while the presence of solaria, decks, shops, gardens, and other services throughout the project's multi-level internal circulation scheme encourages interaction among its inhabitants."Müller, Lars. Viñoly, Rafael. Viñoly, Román. Rafael Viñoly, (Basel: Birkhäuser; New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), p. 109.
Viñoly and the other members of the Estudio de Arquitectura (later, MSGSSS) drew aesthetic as well as functional inspiration from Metabolism, a Japanese movement in architecture and urban planning that took its cues from natural forms and "organic growth patterns" (specifically, "tree imagery") (Rafael Viñoly). The Metabolists advocated for modular design based on "a core construction capable of branching", treelike, "and expanding over time" to create "flexible urban environments" able to keep pace with population growth and the shifting needs of an ever-changing metropolis. In its emphasis on flexible use, interactivity, and the easy circulation of foot traffic (between commercial, residential, and public spaces), the Rioja complex owes a debt to Metabolism.
CASFPI (Caja de Ayuda y Subsidios Familiares para el Personal de la Industria, "Industrial Workers' Mutual Assistance and Family Subsidies Fund") Headquarters (1974)
Sited in Buenos Aires, this mixed-use headquarters for CASFPI, a union-funded association that provides aid, such as family subsidies, to industrial workers, houses medical services, a restaurant, an auditorium, and the association's offices. The innovative design breaks up the monotonous, oppressive regularity and rectilinearity of most such office towers, notes the Princeton Architectural Press monograph Rafael Viñoly, "by cutting away or pushing back the façade wherever the floor area of the roughly rectangular plan exceeds the programmatic requirements. The glazing of these irregular perforations creates multi-story sculptural objects that provide unexpected views of the city to those within the building, while revealing its internal spatial variety."Müller, Lars. Viñoly, Rafael. Viñoly, Román. Rafael Viñoly, (Basel: Birkhäuser; New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), p. 116.
Barrio ALUAR (Aluminio de Argentina) Factory Housing (1974)