Archinect - News2013-05-24T02:24:38-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/64963255/chilean-skyscraper-overshadows-the-city
Chilean Skyscraper Overshadows The City annajohnson2013-01-07T00:30:00-05:00>2013-01-20T00:05:22-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/ul/ulvshqmcy2lfn8a5.jpg" width="514" height="304" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>The skyline of Chile’s capital city, Santiago, has a new addition with the Gran Torre skyscraper casting a two-kilometre shadow across the historic city.
The 70-storey residential building stands more than 300 metres tall, making it the tallest building in South America. The five-ton steel structure cost an estimated one billion dollars to build and tenants are expected to move into the building next March.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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http://archinect.com/news/article/53358681/residencia-architecture-by-auer-weber-video-by-tramnesia
Residencia - architecture by Auer + Weber;video by Tramnesia Archinect2012-07-11T16:48:00-04:00>2012-07-11T20:23:33-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/86/86ciez0bd5qclm47.jpg" width="514" height="283" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>The Residencia is a hotel for staff and guests at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. Located in an extremely remote and desolate section of the Atacama desert, the Residencia was designed by the German architecture firm Auer + Weber as a sanctuary in an environment that has never supported life. The L-shaped building was dug into the ground as if to conceal its presence, presenting profoundly different faces depending on the approach.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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http://archinect.com/news/article/34836694/kouvo-partanen-to-design-hotel-residence-in-atacama-chile
Kouvo & Partanen to Design Hotel Residence in Atacama, Chile Alexander Walter2012-01-17T13:58:00-05:00>2012-01-17T13:59:07-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/24/244mqna5w6m82aj2.jpg" width="514" height="257" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Finnish architects Kouvo & Partanen have just recently been chosen to design a hotel residence for the astronomers, engineers, and other observatory staff working at ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. At 2,900 meters above sea level, the hotel residence will be built at the ALMA Operations Support Facility in the Atacama Desert, in the foothills of the Chilean Andes.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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