Dezeen Debate features concrete pavilions in Chile where "modernist ideas work beautifully"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a pair of concrete pavilions installed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Chile. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
Architecture practice Pezo von Ellrichshausen has installed a lookout tower and a sunken shelter in the Chilean countryside.
The two pavilions, named Lama and Rosa, are situated on a rural site owned by the studio's founders Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen.
Commenters mostly praised the buildings, with one noting, 'this is the scale/size at which modernist ideas work beautifully." However, another criticized the "wasteful concrete structures".
Other stories in this week's newsletter that fired up the comments section included Kelly Wearstler's design for Ulla Johnson's flagship store in West Hollywood, Nike's launch of Alphafly 3, its latest running shoe and a floating house in Ecuador by Natura Futura Arquitectura and architect Juan Carlos Bamba.
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