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FINDING THE CENTER

@JAVIERAGUSTINROJAS

The Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Chas is a labyrinth. A verdant series of concentric circles morphing into squares toward its outer edges, the area has a spoke-and-wheel layout that keeps taxi drivers out for fear of getting lost. Cars thundering along the surrounding avenues don’t bother trying to take the area’s lanes as shortcuts.

To Hernán Landolfo, it was perfect. The 39-year-old architect was living in a small house at the time, but when he and his partner,

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