Tag: South America

Marcio Kogan

I am stretched out on the couch compulsively zapping through TV channels. I pause to watch CNN for a moment - a sniper kills dozens of people at a Mc Donald

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Remota Hotel

Germán del Sol

The sheep farms of Patagonia were the inspiration for this hotel. Not the traditional “estancias”, the warm houses closed to the outside world, but the sple

# Chile (50) # Hotels (434) # Germán del Sol

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Medical Faculties, Diego Portales University

Mathias Klotz

The Medical Faculties of the Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile, completed in 2004 on an already densely built island block, had to follow the orienta

# Pilkington # Chile (50) # Mathias Klotz # University (225)

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Lakefront House

Alejandro Aravena

When we first met the client he asked us to build a house “in shadow colour”. It sounded like an interesting challenge so we agreed to design this private h

# Chile (50) # Alejandro Aravena # Residence (1664)

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Ochoalcubo House

Sebastián Irarrázaval

The guiding idea of the project “ochoalcubo” is something of a utopian resolution: to build high quality, high efficiency residential buildings givi

# Chile (50) # Residence (1664) # Sebastián Irarrázaval

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Lived-in Architecture proyecto Elemental

Alejandro Aravena

Le Corbusier’s first large-scale project was a complex of fifty-one worker family homes at Pessac near Bordeaux: the Quartiers Modernes Frugès. Henry Frugès

# Chile (50) # Alejandro Aravena

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Álvaro Siza Vieira in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Álvaro Siza Vieira

The greatest buildings by Álvaro Siza achieve extraordinary balance: between “statement” and discretion, between surprise and comprehensibility, between ar

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Olisur Olive Oil Factory and Offices

GH+A Guillermo Hevia Architects

This innovative olive-oil processing facility was designed by Chilean architect Guillermo Hevia. Surrounded by olive groves, the Olisur plant is located in the

# Chile (50) # GH+A Guillermo Hevia Architects # Productive complex (197)

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Adriana Varejão Gallery

Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez

We expect architecture for art to complement the work it houses. Often it goes further and plays down its own character to serve as a supposedly neutral contain

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Triptyque Architecture

While the imperative to create sustainable architecture remains an urgent priority, new buildings with an architectural identity that grows over time are relati

# Brazil (75) # Triptyque Architecture # Commercial - Retail (489)

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Techos House

Mathias Klotz

The holiday home Casa Techos near the town of Villa la Angostura in Argentina’s Andean Patagonia is set in a beauty spot amidst a landscape of lakes, forests

# Mathias Klotz # Argentina # Residence (1664)

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Parque Biblioteca España

Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos

Inaugurated in 2007, the public library “Parque Biblioteca España” in the Columbian city of Medellín combines symbol and function: it bears witness to a c

# Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos # Colombia # Cultural center (476)

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