El Eternauta is the most watched non-English series in the world on Netflix, it is Argentine and like so many other icons, it already represents us. And if there is something that stands out in the series, besides the actors, a devastated Buenos Aires but portrayed to perfection, is one of the buildings that appear at the end of the series. Do you want to know where it is and know the history of the giant monoblock building of El Eternauta? We’ll tell you. And also, an incredible fact: Osterheld’ s widow lived there.
This is the brutalist tower that is the protagonist of El Eternauta on Netflix.
The monoblock tower that appears in the last chapters of El Eternauta is at the intersection of Av. Dorrego and Av. Luis María Campos. As seen in the series, it has a reinforced concrete structure 102 meters high and a semicircular design that covers only 25% of the land. This tower is one of the buildings in Buenos Aires that bear witness to the passage of Brutalism through the city. The National Library, for example, is also Brutalist in style,
The brutalist tower of El Eternauta was created in 1968 by architects Alfredo Joselevich, Alberto Ricur and Luis Caffarini, and has 240 apartments distributed over 30 floors. Each apartment has a view of the Río de la Plata.
The idea behind this design was that every inhabitant of the tower would have the same view, wherever they were. In addition, the semicircular structure allows to take advantage of natural light and to create common spaces surrounded by gardens. The main areas are located in the curved part of the building, while the kitchens, laundry rooms and services are located in the concave sector. If one day you are thinking of moving into the building that is the protagonist of El Eternauta, it has 120 three-room, 60 four-room and 60 five-room units.
Did you know that Elsa Oesterheld, widow of one of the creators of El Eternauta, spent her last years living in one of the apartments of the tower of monoblocks of the Netflix series ?
El Eternauta, a monumental tower and the second season of the series on Netflix.
In 2025, El Eternauta is breaking records on the Netflix platform and receiving great reviews from critics and many media outlets in other countries. With El Eternauta and its adaptation for Netflix in this first season, the story of Juan Salvo and the deadly snowfall has captured audiences everywhere and revitalized interest in the places that appear in this television version of the series. The second season of El Eternauta is already confirmed and we will surely see many more imposing buildings and spaces, in addition to all those winks that make it so Argentine.