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post updated 20 February 2026
Claro Arena wins the ArchDaily Building of the Year
IDOM has been awarded the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2026 in the Sports Architecture category for its modernization project of the Universidad Católica Stadium (Claro Arena) in Santiago.

12 November 2025
Claro Arena, Las Condes district, Santiago
Architects: IDOM

photo : Cristóbal Palma
The San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium, currently known as the Claro Arena, was officially inaugurated on September 4, 1988. Located in the Las Condes district of Santiago, Chile, the stadium sits in the foothills on a gently sloping site facing the city.

13 September 2025
Casa Aguadulce, Canela, Coquimbo
Architects: Benjamín Goñi Arquitectos

8 April 2025
MM House, Nilque, Los Lagos, southern Chile
Architects: Benjamín Goñi Arquitectos

27 February 2025
Casa GG, Region Metropolitana
Architect studio: Benjamín Goñi Arquitectos

photo : Andrés Goñi

Chile Houses – we only show a few key home designs on this architectural news page.

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Chile Architectural News in 2024, chronological:

12 December 2024
Buchupureo House, Cobquecura, Pacific Coast
Architect: elton_léniz arquitectos

27 February 2024
ROSA Pabellón, Santa Lucia Alto, Yungay
Architect: Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Mauricio Pezo & Sofia von Ellrichshausen)

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Chile Building News

Chile Architectural News in 2021 – 2023

Ovalle Casino and Hotel, Coquimbo Region

YR Pavillion Santiago

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8 Apr 2022
Santiago de Compostela Bus Station, Santiago de Compostela – A Coruña
Design: IDOM

photo : Aitor Ortiz
The Atlantic axis that runs through Galicia from north to south runs through Santiago de Compostela halfway up a slope running parallel to the river Sar. In order to establish the railway station in the mid-twentieth century, it was necessary to create a wide esplanade for the railway yard, a marked embankment stretching towards the city and important landfills on the lowlands of the River Sar.

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11 Sep 2021
La Fabrica Sustainable Masterplan, Santiago
Design: Foster + Partners

image courtesy of architects practice
Marking the architectural practice’s first project in Chile, designs for a new masterplan for La Fabrica have been revealed. The project centres on the regeneration of an existing mid-twentieth century factory building to create an integrated mixed-use urban quarter in the heart of Santiago, Chile.

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Chile Architecture News 2020

20 Dec 2020
NuMu: New Museum in Santiago
Architects: Cristián Fernández Arquitectos + VadesHagemann Arquitectos + Matias Gonzalez R. + Guillermo Bustos N. + Claudio C. Araya
This building is inviting, it signals an openness towards the community that surrounds it. Qualities like transparency and welcoming spaces create the type of place where people gather together.

15 June 2020
Pergola Pavilion in Lo Barnechea, Santiago
Architects: PAR Arquitectos

photo : Diego Elgueta
An isolated and open construction, next to an existing swimming pool, was ordered at the end of the house garden. The place is presented with an outstanding geographical support, which contains and frames a privileged green environment, typical of the pre-mountain range area east of Santiago.

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Chile Architecture News 2019

2 Nov 2019
Baha’i Temple, Santiago Building
Design: HPA (Hariri Pontarini Architects)

image Courtesy architecture office
A luminous worship space designed and built with the creative use of computer modeling, measuring, and fabrication software, and custom glass, has won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Innovation in Architecture Award for 2017.

7 Oct 2019
MM Apartment Building in Santiago

1 Oct 2019
Lyon 1633 Apartment Building in Santiago

29 Sep 2019
Seis Apartment Building in Santiago

26 Sep 2019
Noa Noa Club Santiago
Design: Oficina Bravo

photograph : Felipe Fontecilla
Design Systems International and Oficina Bravo collaborated to bring new life to a venue that had historically been home to several clubs already.

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Chilean Architectural Updates 2006 – 2018

1 May 2018
House H in Zapallar
Architect: Felipe Assadi Arquitectos

photograph : Fernando Alda
Located in Zapallar, House H is a reinforced concrete structure composed of a succession of longitudinal and transverse beams that work together to generate a single structural piece. As always, we prefer to inhabit a structure instead of structuring a room.

2 Jan 2018
Mountaineer’s Refuge in San Esteban, V región
Architects: Gonzalo Iturriaga Arquitectos

photograph : Federico Cairoli
The design 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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9 Mar 2017
Convention Center San Miguel de Tango in Santiago, Camino Lonquen Sur, Calera de Tango, Santiago
Architects: PAR Arquitectos

photograph : Diego Elgueta
As a general party, the 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, this complemented by a system of perimeter corridors that articulate the various services of the programmatic edge.

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31 Dec 2016
Endless Space for Casa Foa in Santiago
Design: 57STUDIO

image Courtesy architecture office
Interior design fair called “Casa FOA” had its first run in Chile, coming from Argentina. The place selected for this fair was an old two-storey house that was to be recycled by all of the architects, designers and decorators briefed to create one small space within the larger space.

10 Nov 2016
Offices for the Traffic Control Operations Unit in Santiago
Design: Chauriye Stäger Arquitectos

17 May 2016
Glacial Water Bottling Plant in Patagonia, Queulat fiord, Patagonia
Design: Panorama Arquitectos

photography : Cristobal Valdes

20 Jan 2016
VIK Winery Building, Millahue, Vitacura, Santiago
Design: Smiljan Radic architect with Loreto Lyon, in collaboration with Alex and Carrie Vik

photo courtesy of Vik Retreats
As all Vik Retreat destinations have come to be known, the VIK winery features a unique and unprecedented design, which is at once state-of-the-art, highly sustainable, technologically creative and a stunning visual display which redefines the wine experience. The winery has been designed by the talented Chilean architect Smiljan Radic.

19 Jan 2016
Grupo Sud Offices in Santiago
Design: 57STUDIO

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28 Dec 2015
The Wave Open Air Community Theatre in Valparaiso
Design: The Scarcity and Creativity Studio, Oslo School of Architecture – AHO

image Courtesy architecture office
Sitio Eriazo, the client, is a collective whose aim is to recover empty, abandoned, urban spaces in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, which are currently rubbish dumps and attract vermin and delinquents. The members of the group are recent graduates from theater, art and architecture schools.

2 Sep 2015
Bío Bío Horse Stable, Coelemu, Bío Bío
Design: 57STUDIO

photograph : Maurizio Angelini
This building 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.

20 Jan 2015
Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels Rancagua
Design: Antoni Gaudí Architect

image Courtesy architecture office
The construction of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels, a commission of father Angélico, to a design from 1915 by the world-famous Catalan architect, Antoni Gaudí.