Tag: South America

Medellín Mapping - An Open, Inclusive Metropolis

With Medellín we are visiting - for the first time - a South American city, and more particularly, one whose urban and social implications have in recent

# Colombia

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A City on the Move

With a population of 3.5 million, Medellín is Colombia’s second largest urban conglomeration. The city and its surrounding metropolitan area are lo

# Colombia

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Multipurpose space - Cidade das Artes

Christian De Portzamparc

Cidade das Artes is Rio de Janiero’s artistic hub, a venue for symphonic and chamber music, opera, dance and cinema, and home to Brazil’s Symphony O

# Brazil (75) # Theater - Auditorium (175) # Christian De Portzamparc

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Maipu Building

Nicolás Campodonico Arquitecto

This piece, fully made of reinforced concrete, solves the construction stages making small vertical movements in each piece avoiding constructive marks on the c

# Argentina # Residential Building - Complex (603) # Nicolás Campodonico Arquitecto

#Architecture

Elqui Domos Astronomical Hotel

Duque Motta & Arquitectos Asociados

Chile’s narrow Elqui Valley is a thin stretch of land between the Andes and a coastal mountain chain. The landscape, its natural colours, unpolluted skies

# Chile (50) # Hotels (434) # Duque Motta & Arquitectos Asociados

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Crystals in the Landscape: a sharp-angled House embedded in California’s Wine Country

Voorsanger Architects

Napa Valley, an hour’s drive north of San Francisco, is the hub of the California wine industry, drawing hordes of visitors every year though still preser

# Residence (1664) # Voorsanger Architects # California, USA (123)

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Casa MM

Studio MK27

Far from the frenetic pace of the metropolis, Bragança Paulista is a little town north of São Paulo nestled among gentle hills where farmland is i

# Brazil (75) # Residence (1664) # Studio MK27 (30)

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Casa Venturini

Adamo-Faiden

Renovation and refurbishment briefs of fairly old buildings of some historic note pose a real dilemma for architects: choosing between faithful restoration of w

# Argentina # Residence (1664) # Adamo-Faiden

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Elqui Domos Astronomical Hotel

Duque Motta & Arquitectos Asociados

Chile’s narrow Elqui Valley is a thin stretch of land between the Andes and a coastal mountain chain. The landscape, its natural colours, unpolluted skies

# Chile (50) # Hotels (434) # Duque Motta & Arquitectos Asociados

#Magazine

JN House

Jacobsen Arquitectura

Tucked among Brazil’s Petrópolis mountains an hour and a half drive from Rio de Janeiro, this holiday home has been made to measure for the Client&

# Brazil (75) # Residence (1664) # Jacobsen Arquitectura

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Bicentennial Civic Centre

GGMPU Arquitectos | Lucio Morini

The intense new architecture on the former site of the General Mitre railway line running parallel to high-speed roads and the Suquia River is part of an urban

# Argentina # Public (333) # GGMPU Arquitectos # Lucio Morini

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Casa Mirador

Matías Zegers Arquitectos

Cloaked in the mists that hug the surrounding vineyard-clad hills, Casa Mirador is strangely reminiscent of a traditional rural building yet at the same time ap

# Chile (50) # Residence (1664) # Matías Zegers Arquitectos

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