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Here you will find the most important architecture firms in Chile. Each firm has selected an important project to be showcased in this website.
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Alto Bío Bío Museum and Square
Located in Alto Bío Bío, a rural village in the VIII Region of the South of Chile, the Pehuenche Museum concludes a cultural axis with the square and a new high school, constituting an important service center for this town. The museum and the square are the entities entrusted with the Pehuenche cultural ancestry.
Caja de Compensación Building
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The project is located in Talca City, 7th Region, to the south of Chile.
The Caja de Compensación building in Talca seeks to group a series of separate services together within the same building, ensuring their independent operations in a certain way. The programs are very diverse – health area, educational areas, full-time elderly care area and office areas.
Casino Enjoy Antofagasta and The Hotel del Desierto
Both the “Casino Enjoy Antofagasta” and the “Hotel del Desierto” projects are located south from city centre, within an area called “Ruinas de Huanchaca”, a former silver-melting industrial facility, which was not only abandoned but totally neglected from urban frame. Such situation acted against ruin’s heritage and cultural legacy. The new building rises as a response to that previous scenario, in order to integrate the Huanchaca ruins either as a public landmark and by generating an urban public space able to include the ruins in the major picture, as part of the city and its cultural identity.
Chile displays its architecture at seminar in Shanghai
A seminar was held in Shanghai with the presence of Chile’s Minister of Public Works, Hernán de Solminihac, Chinese authorities, representatives of ProChile and of the Architectural Office Association of Chile (AOA), which successfully showed the characteristics of Chilean architecture that may be attractive for Chinese investors.
This event is one of the different activities contemplated by ProChile’s strategy of positioning Chile’s service exports in China.
Minister of Public Works Inaugurates Chile’s Week of Architecture, Engineering and Infrastructure in Chile’s Pavilion at Expo Shanghai
With a photography show and a series of conferences, a group of Chilean architects together with the Minister of Public Works, Hernán de Solminihac, explained why Chile’s infrastructure was able to successfully withstand one of the strongest earthquakes that have hit the planet in recent years.
Cristalerías de Chile S.A.
by Guillermo Hevia H.
An undulating covering which serves as representation of the geography of the place, following the direction of the prevailing winds. The use of multiple sustainable technologies creates an environment favorable for work and for the production of glass bottles.
Acquatiempo Building
by Farrú Arquitectos
The organization of the plans shows separate functions at different levels: reception and swimming pools at income level and multipurpose rooms in the following two levels. In the underground is set the rest of the program: dressing rooms, pump rooms and parking.
AOA cooperates with the reconstruction of the Robinson Crusoe island
A little over three months after the earthquake and tsunami that affected the Chilean south, a project promoted by the Municipality of Lo Barnechea and the Asociación de Oficinas de Arquitectos (AOA) will allow building new housing units in this legendary island, together with designing a master plan that will substantially improve the quality of living of its inhabitants.
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- Chile displays its architecture at seminar in Shanghai
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- AOA cooperates with the reconstruction of the Robinson Crusoe island
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- The Chilean pavilion has become one of the foremost attractions at Expo Shanghai
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