Mountaineer’s Refuge in San Esteban
Designed by Gonzalo Iturriaga Arquitectos the brief was for a small cabin with a roof, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom – the necessities for resuming the mountain trek begun the day before.
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Major works to visit include La Fabrica, Santiago, designed by Bitish practice Foster + Partners. Marking the firm’s first project in this country, the project centres on the regeneration of an existing mid-twentieth century factory to create an integrated mixed-use urban quarter in the heart of the city.
Another major property is NuMu Santiago by Cristián Fernández Arquitectos + VadesHagemann Arquitectos + Matias Gonzalez R. + Guillermo Bustos N. + Claudio C. Araya. It signals an openness towards the community that surrounds it. The spaces invite one to linger. It promotes the interaction between people and art, in all its manifestations.
Designed by Gonzalo Iturriaga Arquitectos the brief was for a small cabin with a roof, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom – the necessities for resuming the mountain trek begun the day before.
Designed by Studio MK27 and 57STUDIO, architects this villa is as gentle as possible, in order to preserve the level difference of the site and the views.
Architects: PAR Arquitectos. This project seeks the configuration of a central void, as an adaptive and flexible extension to the functions of the various uses required by the program.
With Endless Space 57STUDIO wanted to provoke something beyond the products exhibited, which in fact were very few as we seek to highlight them much better through the white backdrop and lighting.
Design: Chauriye Stäger Arquitectos. This commission involved the revamping of two old houses, with a third building incorporated as an annex. The challenge was to merge all three properties into one corporate building.
Design: Chauriye Stäger Arquitectos. Facing the breathtaking Andes mountain range on one side and a rolling, luxuriant valley of almond trees on the other, the house is located next to a reservoir.
Design: Cristian Hrdalo Arquitectos. HG House is a house on the beach for my parents, for them it was very important that the house could receive all the family and guests and also to function at a reduced size when they were alone.
Design: Panorama Arquitectos. The building that contains the process is a box 18 by 18m and 6m high. The four facades are clad in toughened glass with a black opaque coating with a tapered soil base
Design: Smiljan Radic architect. The winery’s design features a uniquely transparent, stretched fabric roof that allows for natural sunlight to permeate the winery and thereby to operate without artificial lighting.
Design: Gubbins Arquitectos
To break the typical areas of an urban house; kitchen, living–dining room and dormitories, this house has a double circulation that deconstructs these areas into a set of complimentary places. This creates a way of inhabiting that moves away from a typical urban arrangement into a more playful one.
Design: 57STUDIO
Grupo Sud is the conversion of an old perfume factory into an open work space for a holding of 4 companies that are fully integrated in the marketing, production, design and communication areas.
Sitio Eriazo is a collective whose members are theatre school graduates who recover empty, abandoned, urban spaces in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003, and put them to community use.
Design: Nicolas Loi. The house is located in Lo Curro, a residential area of Santiago, Chile. The area has some hills and forest, with a great view of the city of Santiago. The design strategy is based on a 7 x 25 meter rectangle, located over an existing parking space.
Horse Stable in Bío Bío replaces an existing structure used as a barn on a farm in the region of Bio Bio, it is requested to rebuild a higher-capacity version with 4 stables, 2 cellars and 1 trough.
The sites, around 5000 sqm each and mostly surrounded by golf fields and green areas, have the constant presence of the Andes, high temperatures during summer time and winds from the south.
The Gaudí de Triana Corporation is holding an unprecedented exhibition on Gaudí’s work in connection with the construction of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels, a commission of father Angélico
Architects : 57 Studio
This is a residence for a family who looks for a more extensive terrain and ampler spaces, without leaving the traditional neighborhood where it has lived for almost 30 years.