
Santiago: The Latest Architecture and News
Container Building / Hsu-Rudolphy Architects
Chile Has a Lot to Say about Restoration: 5 Works That Recover and Revalue Heritage

Chile has a rich and vast heritage architecture, which is gradually gaining relevance through different initiatives that seek to renovate these buildings to give them a second life. The buildings and infrastructures were in disrepair, disused, or damaged, but have great architectural value, being an important contribution to the reconstruction of the history of Chilean cities.
Casa Italia Townhouse / FOAA
Gardeners' Pavilion Club Hípico de Santiago / José Ignacio Valdivieso
Barrio Yungay Was Selected as One of the Most Attractive Neighbourhoods in the World by the British Magazine Time Out

The British magazine Time Out has selected Barrio Yungay in Santiago, Chile, as one of the most attractive neighborhoods in the world. The neighborhood was selected under the Time Out Index survey, where respondents from different countries answered the question "What is the most attractive place in your city at the moment?" and was ranked ninth out of a list of 51 neighborhoods, including Colonia Americana in Guadalajara, Shimokitazawa in Tokyo and Cours Julien in Marseille.
Triatletas House / Mas & Fernandez Arquitectos
Avocado House / Práctica Arquitectura
Architecture Classics: The Benedictine Monastery Chapel / Gabriel Guarda, Martin Correa

The Benedictine monastery chapel of Santa María de las Condes, visible from different points in the eastern part of Santiago, Chile, is a white volume, located halfway up the slopes of Los Piques hill.
Plaza de Armas Metro Station Building / Beals Lyon Arquitectos

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Architects: Beals Lyon Arquitectos
- Area : 4115 m²
- Year : 2020
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Manufacturers : Nuprotec
Casona Compañía Restoration / Oficina Bravo

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Architects: Oficina Bravo
- Area : 6458 ft²
- Year : 2021
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Manufacturers : Aceros Villalba, Invisible Objetos
Chile’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2021 Arrives at Santiago’s Museum of Contemporary Art

Testimonial Spaces, the theme of Chile's pavilion at the recent Venice Biennial 2021, opened to the public on the 18th of January at Santiago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
Curated by architects Emilio Marín and Rodrigo Sepúlveda, Testimonial Spaces brings together 525 paintings based on testimonies and everyday stories from the José María Caro neighbourhood in Santiago, in line with "How will we live together?", the theme of the biennial curated by Lebanese architect Hashim Sarkis.
Healing Gardens: Nature as Therapy in Hospitals

For the Cosmos Foundation, environmental conscience, ecological conservation, and community focus form the foundations of land planning and landscape design within public infrastructure projects. We sat down with the foundation's project director, Felipe Correa, as well as foundation architects Valentina Schmidt and Consuelo Roldán, as they went in depth on the benefits, objectives, and motivations behind the Healing Gardens initiative.
Republica Building Heritage Intervention / MSRAA - Martin Schmidt Radic Arquitectos Asociados

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Architects: Martin Schmidt Radic Arquitectos Asociados
- Area : 4084 m²
- Year : 2021
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Manufacturers : AutoDesk, Bradley Corporation USA, Lamitech, ULMA Architectural Solutions, Sherwin-Williams, +27
Smiljan Radic and Javier González Pesce Disappear an Art Gallery in Chile

An inflatable and soft body—a silver balloon—scatters towards the sidewalk in the heart of Santiago, Chile. People walk by touching the strange artifact, curiously looking at the object moving over the public space. Behind the pillow, the Gabriela Mistral Gallery disappears.
Foster + Partners Designs Mixed-Use Masterplan for Industrial Site in Chile

Foster + Partners revealed its design for a masterplan focusing on adaptive reuse and programmatic diversity meant to regenerate the site of a mid-century factory in the heart of Santiago. The practice's first project in Chile proposes the refurbishment of the existing factory building, La Fabrica, while adding a residential development on the adjacent site and introducing timber as a sustainable building material for the extensions.
Architecture Classics: Unidad Vecinal Providencia / Carlos Barella Iriarte + Isaac Eskenazi Tchimino

The Unidad Vecinal Providencia (Providencia Neighborhood Unit) is one of the many residential complexes generated in Chile as a result of a housing and urban development public policy promoted through the CORVI (Housing Corporation) between 1953 and 1973.
Commissioned by the Caja de Empleados Particulares (Private Employees Fund) to be built on a site where previously the National Children's House was based, the Unidad Vecinal Providencia was designed as a complex capable of becoming an urban piece, promoting spatial integration and social cohesion in Santiago.