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Chile

  • Mi casa es su casa
    Chilean firm Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados designs a red house on stilts on the island of Chiloé >
  • ArchDaily
    ArchDaily is proudly driven to help architects design a better world >
  • ©Jeroen Van Der Wielen
    Oliber helps people with partial or total atrophy of the hands
    Chilean design graduate Bárbara López designed a low-cost tool to give new hands to those in need. >
  • Alejandro Aravena at Design Indaba 2018
    When a natural disaster occurred in Chile, Alejandro Aravena and his team set out to rebuild the city
    The architect tackles the reconstruction of a city through public participation. >
  • The Wave
    Graduates in Chile transform abandoned urban lots into community spaces
    Sitio Eriazo, a collective of theatre, architecture and art graduates are on a mission to restore beauty to these spaces. >
  • Alejandro Aravena
    Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena on rebuilding a city after a natural disaster
    Aravena’s work sits at the intersection of public interest and social impact, addressing issues of housing, public space, infrastructure, and transportation. >
  • The Wishing Wall by Andile Dyalvane, gt2P
    Andile Dyalvane, gt2P on creating The Wishing Wall
    The Chilean design group and the South African ceramicist on their unlikely partnership. >
  • Great Things To People, Andile Dyalvane
    Andile Dyalvane, gt2p in never-before-seen installation at Design Indaba 2017
    An unexpected link emerges between the Chilean design group and the South African ceramicist. >
  • Wacom Creatives - Alberto Montt
    Wacom Creatives: Alberto Montt on storytelling through illustrations
    “As human beings we have an enormous capacity of assigning stories; we feel stuffed with our stories, and I love that.” >
  • Make Care
    Make Care products give teens with butterfly skin back their independence
    The project won Best of the Best at the Chile Design, 2017 Design Biennial. >
  • GT2P
    Great Things to People (gt2P)
    Architect
    Chilean architecture, art and design studio Great Things to People (gt2P) experiment with digital crafting to systematise local knowledge and cultural heritage. >
  • gt2P
    What if we can recreate and control lava?
    gt2P, a Chilean studio investigates the material properties of volcanic lava. >
  • Yerka bike locking system
    Yerka: The Fort Knox of bicycles
    Three Chilean engineering students dropped out of college to develop an unstealable bicycle with an integrated locking system. >
  • Patagonia Merino Air Baselayer fabric
    An innovative new knit for outdoor wear brand Patagonia
    The environmentally-conscious brand has developed a new fabric that promotes sustainability in Patagonia’s grasslands. >
  • The team behind Bureo skateboards is working with fishing communities to upcycle discarded nets.
    Bureo turn old fishing nets into skateboards
    The team behind Bureo skateboards is working with fishing communities to upcycle discarded nets. >
  • alejandro aravena's award-winning uc innnovation centre
    Alejandro Aravena’s UC Innovation Centre wins 2015 Design of the Year Award for Architecture
    London’s Design Museum selects the Chilean’s university building over 15 other acclaimed nominees. >
  • Alejandro Aravena: Elemental housing solution in Santa Catarina, Mexico. Photo: Ramiro Ramirez.
    The good half house
    Elemental in Chile is doing more than half-heartedly answering the question of social housing. Alejandro Aravena talks to Nadine Botha. >
  • Alejandro Aravena
    Architect
    Alejandro Aravena is the principal of Alejandro Aravena Architects and the executive director of Elemental, a do-tank focusing on projects of social impact. >
  • Alejandro Aravena.
    The essential Alejandro Aravena at DI2010
    You’ll be forgiven for associating Alejandro Aravena’s architectural designs with the primitive. >
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