U.S., Oct. 23 -- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has released renderings for Catalinas Rio, a waterfront office building to be the centre of activity in Buenos Aires' Catalinas Norte business district.

The US architect is working with Argentinian firm Consultatio Real Estate on the development, which houses offices, retail and public green areas in two intertwined trapezoid towers.

"The city's financial district is undergoing a period of unprecedented expansion," said Eduardo F. Costantini, President of Consultatio Real Estate. "The new plots acquired by Consultatio bring about new ways of coexistence and urban connection. Thus, Catalinas Rio was born as a strategic project, a crucial point of contact and passage through areas destined...