CASA VIEW

A new house in Rosario by Johnston Marklee & Associates and Diego Arraigada.








Diego Arraigada

GUILLERMO BANCHINI

Guillermo's home and office...


Aerial photos of farmland surrounding Rosario taken by Guillermo...
A new house designed by Guillermo in Kentucky Park

NICOLAS CAMPODONICO

Recent projects coming from Nicolás' studio include critically acclaimed residences in Uruguay and a new tower (model below) currently under construction in his hometown of Rosario.

RAFAEL IGLESIAS

Rafael Iglesias runs an adventurous studio in Rosario. His office is filled with experimental objects, young international architects, and new ideas.
Chair designed from inner tubes of tyres

Lamps weighed down by rocks
Doors that open and close at the same time


One of Rafael's new Colombian assistants
A new fertility centre. The reflective metal wall 'multiplies' the population, and distorts bodies to give the appearance of pregnancy...




San Luis 470, Edificio Altamiro. This residential project was started before the crash in 2001, and is now nearing completion.

















A warehouse conversion adjacent to basketball courts
Pavilions in Parque Independencia

Rafael demonstates how the concave urinals enlarge the appearance of the penis while peeing, encouraging a correct aim.
The doors are bent to allow the strip lights to illuminate the corridor and the cubicle



The concrete roof of the food court is rested on tree trunks

ROADTRIP TO ROSARIO

Hitch a very early ride with BaBO to see some new architecture outside of Buenos Aires.

FROM LATIN AMERICA TO ITALY

This project has been picked up by Abitare, one of Italy's leading architecture/design magazines.

Read their report here: Travelling South

Thanks guys...

COLLECTIVO HBT

HBT is a collective formed from two practices (Mariano Clusellas, Cristián O'Connor, Juan Ades and Alberto Campolonghi; Sebastián Colle and Rudolfo Croce) who work together on large projects. The office is on the first floor of Humboldt 1510, a building designed with Daniel Szuldman and Mario Zambonini who occupy the second floor.

First floor office

Juan Ades and Mariano Clusellas on the communal roof

DIEGUEZ FRIDMAN: TWO PROJECTS

Clay 2928, Las Cañitas, Buenos Aires



















Ayres flagship store, Palermo Viejo, Buenos Aires

FLORENCIA RODRIGUEZ

Florencia Rodriguez is an architecture curator and critic in Buenos Aires. She curated the exhibition HEX about new architects in Argentina in 2007. This show is now touring, and opens today in Spain at Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Florencia has just been appointed the director of CEAC, a new centre for contemporary architecture at the University of Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires.
The HEX catalogue

Ariel Jacubovich

BaBO / Tour of new projects

House in Palermo, 2008









House in Pilar, 2009

MARTIN TORRADO / LIGIA GAFFURI / JAVIER ESTEBAN

Martin, Ligia and Javier focus a lot of attention on architecture competitions. This has proved successful - they have just won the competition to convert marine warehouse into a new naval museum.

ESTUDIO BaBO

Estudio BaBO is named after the home cities of its three founders: Francisco Kocourek (Buenos Aires), Francesc Planas Penadès (Barcelona) and Marit Stabell (Oslo). BaBO was just awarded first prize in a major masterplanning competition that made the front page of Clarín's architecture supplement.
BaBO's first project: Espacio Olleros, 2008. Their shared office that also contains a ground floor gallery space that they are looking to activate.

Model of BaBO's second project: Francisco and Marit's house, 2009.


A new brick house under construction near Pilar.

Summa+ / Barzón

Fernando Diez and Tomas Powell run two architecture magazines from Buenos Aires. Summa+ serves the industry, while Barzón has a more cultural / consumer remit.

ADAMO|FAIDEN ARQUITECTOS: A TOUR OF RECENT WORK

Office of Adamo|Faiden




Community centre in la Candida, 2009





Clubhouse la Candida, 2008










Edificio Conesa 4560, 2008














Edificio Arribeños 3182, 2007

a77

Gustavo Diéguez & Lucas Gilardi launched a77 in 2006. They had previously worked together while studying at UBA (Buenos Aires' public university). Gustavo is now a professor at the University of Palermo, and Lucas teaches at the University of Belgrano. They showed me a new house they built for a family in Buenos Aires (the second house for the same client) that has been constructed from recycled and reclaimed materials. The ground floor is a large loft space. The programme is more defined on the first floor with bedrooms sited around a central courtyard. The roof has been landscaped with an asado, pool and grass feature (popular with the dog). The orange used throughout the house is one of the basic colours available to protect steel and is used as an aesthetic.















The architects use exhibitions to experiment with new types of structures and are currently planning a public installation for Barcelona in collaboration with local artists, recycling facilities and education groups.

PURR

Purr is a bookshop / gallery by Marina Alessio providing a platform for international artists and new fanzines.

BUENOS AIRES

Another country, another city...

PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN: ONE NIGHT IN CASA POLI

Casa Poli, 2005. The happiest concrete cube in the world. Photos by Jaffer Kolb.

DRIVING TO CASA POLI

Jaffer and I have been invited to stay for one night at Casa Poli, Pezo von Ellrichshausen's first building used for artist residencies. As we leave Concepcion early in the morning, the sky is full of smoke. The trees are burning all around. Apparently this happens ever summer, and no one seems too concerned.

PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN ARCHITECTS

Pezo von Ellrichshausen is undoubtedly one of the best architects working in Chile today. The practice, based in Concepcion, has been designing buildings and art-based installation since 2001. Mauricio and Sofía are currently teaching at Cornell, so we were hosted by Leona Schäfer.

The office and home
The office dog
Model of Chilean installation, curated by Pezo von Ellrichshausen at Venice Architecture Biennale 2008

The recently completed Parr House
Pael House

GOODBYE SANTIAGO

You were wonderful.

PUBLICATIONS

SPAM is an art / architecture fanzine published in Santiago by Pablo Brugnoli, Kathryn Gillmore and Gregorio Brugnoli.

PULSO: New Architecture in Chile by Jeannette Plaut was published in January 2009.

CARRENO SARTORI

Mario Carreño Zunino showed me around the female-dominated studio he runs with his landscape architect wife, Piera. They have established themselves with several projects at Santiago Zoo (for people and animals), and larger public projects inluding a new gymnasium and masterplanning a 50 hectares park in a run down part of town.

The first project was a house in a woods for their parents in 2000
Early models for a new reptile house at Santiago Zoo. They have already constructed the chimpanzee enclosure

The Zoo director's house and work spaces
A new gymnasium

PANORAMA

Panorama is a new practice launching in 2009 by Nicolás Valdés and Constanza Hagemann. They have both returned to Santiago from London following periods of working on large scale projects (Nicolás at KPF) and further studies (Constanza at the AA's DRL). Their ambition is to now bring research-based practice, along with a knowledge of large projects, to urban and public projects in South America. Their HQ is a Japanese-inspired Carlos Alberto Cruz house in El Golf.








A previous project with FG Arquitectos

PLATAFORMA URBANA / PLATAFORMA ARQUITECTURA / ARCHDAILY

Plataforma Urbana was launched in November 2005 as a forum to discuss urban issues. This was followed in February 2006 with Plataforma Arquitectura, now the most popular Spanish-language website about architecture. An English version, Archdaily, was launched in February 2008 and is now in the top 5 most visited architecture websites. The websites are open to contributions internationally and also publish international competitions and interviews. Founders David Assael & David Basulto will be taking part in Storefront's LA edition of Postopolis.
David Basulto (left) and David Assael

The web HQ

0300TV

0300TV was launched by Sebastián Paredes (24), Diego Grass (24) and Felipe De Ferrari (25), three current students at the Universidad Catolica de Chile. It started with short films made on digital cameras while exchange students in Barcelona. They aim to show a more real depiction of architectural projects internationally than is possible in photography and magazine formats. They intitiate all their own content including a critque on public space in Chile and upcoming specials on Japanese and Chinese architects.
Diego Grass (above) and Sebastián Paredes

MORE SMILJAN RADIC

A visit to twin houses by Smiljan Radic with Patricio Mardones and Argentinian architect Sebastian Adamo. The houses were designed for two brothers. The forms are mirrored, but the internal plans are configured differently.

CO-OP

CO-OP (website launching soon) was established in 2008 by Nicolas Rebollado, Fernando Portal and Arturo Torres as a 'community of practice' with the belief in collective intelligence and not singular authorship. CO-OP consists of about 20 people in 3 departments (communications, web design/editorial, architecture) and their work ranges from built projects to art installations and annual reports.
Fernando Portal (above) and Nicolas Rebollado...
The architecture team...
The communications room...
Nicolas' band, The Co...
CO-OP was established as the next generation of URO1.org - a political architecture collective that ran from 1998 to 2008. URO1.org saw their work as part of the cultural transformation after the dictatorship to create public debate about social relations. The early Nautilus Project project (2000) featured an actress installed in a glass box in central Santiago - attracting strong media and public interest. M7 (2004) was a house constructed out of 71 sheets of plywood in 9 days. Both projects took place while the protagonists were still studying. In 2006 URO1.org was invited to guest edit the polish architecture magazine Arctura to present what they saw as the new wave of Chilean architects.
Nautilus Project (above) and M7
Archiecture magazine,February 2006...

CRISTOBAL PALMA

Patricio Mardones, ARQ, and Cristobal Palma, a photographer that has been documenting the work of the best new architects in Chile, meet me for lunch in El Giratorio (Santiago's very own revolving restaurant).

OCHO AL CUBO

Ocho al Cubo is a new development in a gated golfing community near Maitencillo. The developer selected 8 Chilean and international architects (and growing... Toyo Ito is now constructing one of the last houses). Photos: Jaffer.

Architects include Smiljan Radic...
Cristián Valdés...
Cecilia Puga... (Interior photos by Cristobal Palma)
Teodoro Fernandez...
Sebastian Irarrazaval...

And Toyo Ito's new addition...
Site map (Toyo Ito's house is being added bottom right)

SMILJAN RADIC: CASA PITE

Smiljan is considered one of the most interesting architects working in Chile, and Casa Pite one of his finest houses. Antonia Peon-Veiga, the chica of the house and Parsons lighting design student, took us on a tour of the main house and guest house. Photos by Jaffer Kolb.