Foster+Partners’ first commission in Chile involves regenerating an existing mid-20th-century textile factory in the heart of Santiago. It will be part of a new mixed-use urban quarter. The masterplan extends onto an adjacent site, towards the plant’
With a built-up area of 5,500 square meters, the Matta Sur complex comprises two volumes. First is the former Metropolitan Lyceum of Santiago – built in 1891 and structurally gravely damaged by the 2010 earthquake – has been consolidated and renovate
Located in the Montenegro neighborhood of the Chilean capital, this single-household dwelling is crowned with a thin volume which, clad in stainless steel panels and featuring a skylight, is the only part of the building that can be seen from the sur
Contributing to the renewal of the historic city appears to be the most sustainable strategy to preserve the vitality of the urban fabric, resisting in this way the erosion that the unbridled growth of the peripheries has caused in the city. The muse
This museum was built as a tribute to Violeta Parra (1917-1967), one of the most complete and prominent figures of Chilean art. Her multiple facets (musician, poet, visual artist, ceramist, researcher, staunch defender of the people, uncompromising c
Canonized in 2005, the Chilean Jesuit Alberto Hurtado (1901-1952) devoted his life to providing assistance and comfort to children and young people in need, a mission for which he became a prominent figure in the first half of the 20th century. In 19
The nueva Costanera neighborhood, east of Santiago, has in the past years gone from being a garden-city residential structure to a more urban one. The old residences have opened their parks to public space, extending the pedestrian areas and includin
Built in the last decade of the 18th century and designed by the Italian Joaquín Toesca y Ricci (disciple of Francisco Sabatini), the Palacio de La Moneda is one of the most beautiful neoclassical buildings in South America, and is the seat of Chile’
The construction of the city is a permanent and by definition unfinished process, and always a reflection of the society that builds it. As a collective creation, the city is the depositary of multiple grids and flows that sum complex and sometimes c
Agriculture shaped the ethos of the Chilean people in the 18th and 19th centuries. This ethos found its urban correlate in the garden-city that served as expansion model for the city of Santiago during the second half of the 20th century. The extensi
The project is inserted in the very center of the grid that brought the city of Santiago into being in 1541, a matrix that became the urban paradigm of the Laws of the Indies in America. A good portion of this grid still organizes the continuous and
El equipo de arquitectos afincado en São Paulo, Estudio América, ha finalizado la construcción del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos en Santiago de Chile. El proyecto, que se inscribe dentro de los actos conmemorativos del bicentenario de la
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago (Chile) The IV Latin American Biennial of Architecture and Civil Engineering, organized by an assorted group of univeristies, professional associations and government institutions from Spain and Peru, and with hou
