SAFICO building, Art Deco office building on Avenida Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The SAFICO building is an office tower on Avenida Corrientes in Buenos Aires, with 25 floors and a symmetrical main facade. A six-floor pyramid section rises at the rear, giving the structure an unusual profile when seen from certain angles.

Swiss engineer Walter Moll designed the SAFICO for the Sociedad Anónima, Financiera y Comercial. Construction began in 1932, took nine months and the building opened in 1934. Municipal rules set it back from the line of Avenida Corrientes for the widening finished in 1936, and the 1928 Reglamento General de Construcciones capped the front at about 40 metres, above which Moll raised a stepped tower to 90 metres.

The building's name comes from the Sociedad Anónima, Financiera y Comercial, the company that commissioned it. Since the late 20th century it has housed the Buenos Aires offices of several foreign news agencies, which gives the tower its current working character. The Plazoleta San Nicolás beside it, created in 1979, includes a small Federal Police post aimed at tourists.

The building stands directly on Avenida Corrientes, one of the main streets in central Buenos Aires, and is easy to reach on foot. To see both the front facade and the rear pyramid section, it helps to step back or walk around the block.

The top three floors were originally built as a private apartment for a SAFICO executive, which was a rare arrangement for an office building at that time. Having a personal residence at the top of a downtown tower was something few buildings of that era could claim.