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Cultural Centers, Museums, and Galleries: Ancient Buildings Transformed into Art Spaces in Latin America

Many buildings often fall into disuse due to our cities' constant economic, social, and technological changes. The programmatic inconsistency of current times demands great versatility and adaptability from our infrastructures, increasingly leading projects to become uninhabited, and left to abandonment and decay.

Next, we present a series of 20 Latin American projects in which old warehouses, homes, prisons, mills, and markets were recovered and transformed into Cultural Centers, Museums, and Galleries.

Design Depot: 30 Projects that Explore Diverse Storage Solutions

With the rise of small houses and dense cities, we were forced to sacrifice a good amount of storage space. Ironically, we did not compromise our purchasing habits, so with a few square meters to work with, architects and designers had to come up with efficient storage solutions and make the best of the limited space they have. However, if you were lucky enough to be occupying a large, unobscured space with a generous budget, your storage design possibilities are endless. In this article, we look at how architects and designers found creative ways to store their belongings in spaces with different functions, scales, and spatial constraints, ranging from completely invisible units to sculptural centerpieces.

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Casa Arca / Gonzalo Iturriaga Atala

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La Reina, Chile
  • Architects: Gonzalo Iturriaga Atala.
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  240
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2022
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Liderglass , Maderas Martini, Melón Hormigones

Kingston Guesthouse & Event Hall for a Vineyard / Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos

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Casablanca, Chile
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  410
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  AutoDesk, Cementos Melon, MK, WoodArch

AEME Building / Paz Arquitectura

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  • Architects: Paz Arquitectura
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  10702
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Parklex Prodema, Aluver, Coverlam, Hunter Douglas, Neocrete, +1

El Pangue House / Felipe Combeau + Andrea Murtagh

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Zapallar, Chile
  • Architects: Felipe Combeau, Andrea Murtagh
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  460
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021

Mar Jónico Apartment Building / SML Arquitectos

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Vitacura, Chile
  • Architects: SML Arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  51742 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  AutoDesk, Hunter Douglas

Talleres Building / MasPuntoCero Arquitectura y Juan Pablo Alvarado Foerster

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Old Stream House / Hebra Arquitectos

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  • Architects: Hebra Arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  110
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  AutoDesk, Fanaloza, Fuente Reggio, Kitchen Center, MCT, +1

SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos

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Quilicura, Chile
  • Architects: SML Arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  256224 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Hunter Douglas

Cloth and Linen Walls: Translucent and Weightless

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Whether made from natural or synthetic fibers, textiles have played a part in architectural design since time immemorial; however, it wasn't until the era of industrialization and advancements in technology that high-quality textiles could be made and utilized en masse. Most often, they have been used to enclose temporary structures like medical tents and emergency housing thanks to their mobility and ease of assembly.

Architecture in the United States Designed by Latin American Architects

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Rafael Viñoly / Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Image © Groupe Canam [Wikimedia] Bajo licencia CC BY-SA 3.0

Globalization and its pension for both virtual and physical connectivity has led to the linking of the world's economies, territories, and cultures and nowhere is this more evident than in the field of architecture.

Selected Projects of Pritzker Laureates’ in 2020

This year, architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize, has been granted to Grafton Architects, a Dublin-based architectural firm mainly ran by female partners Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. For the first time ever in its 42-year history, due to the constraints set by Covid-19 global pandemic, the organizers of the Pritzker Prize decided to use Livestream the award ceremony. Having reached the end of 2020, ArchDaily has summed up what current and previous Pritzker Prize winners have accomplished during this turbulent year.