Cristobal Palma documents streets of Santiago during protests
Architecture photographer Cristobal Palma captures an atmosphere of "paranoia" with shots of the boarded-up streets in Santiago's wealthy areas during the recent protests. More
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Guillermo Acuña raises seaside annexe on forest of red-painted pine stilts
Punta Chilen by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados is a house extension on bright red-painted pine stilts overlooking the sea on the island of Chiloe in Chile. More
Architect builds his own blackened pine-clad house in Chile
Architects Pablo Saric and Cristian Winckler designed Casa SS in Canela, Chile, as a single-storey dwelling clad in charred pine just steps away from a dramatic coastline. More
Croxatto and Opazo Architects perches timber-clad cabins on coastal hillside in Chile
Croxatto and Opazo Architects has designed two minimalist cabins clad in reclaimed oak set high on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Navidad, Chile. More
Matías Zegers Arquitectos builds stone courtyard house in Chilean wine country
Casa Tapihue by Matías Zegers Arquitectos is a house in a vineyard built from white stone around a courtyard with a firepit in Casablanca, Chile. More
Small La Invernada cabin glows in Chilean forest at night
This house by Chilean studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has mesh and polycarbonate walls to reflect the shadows of trees in daytime and light up at night. More
Peruvian mountains surround geometric and red Casa Huayoccari by Barclay & Crousse
Lima studio Barclay & Crousse has completed this house with reddish stone and concrete walls, and dramatically slanted roofs to echo mountains. More
Slatted wood encloses glass Engawa House in Chile
An external walkway and glazed living space are hidden behind sliding slatted woodwork in this house in Chile, designed by architects Santiago Valdivieso and Stefano Rolla. More
Red roofs are layered atop wooden frame of Casa Malalcahuello by GAAA
Bright red roofs stand out in the setting of this house in Malalcahuello, Chile, which Santiago firm Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has built from CNC-cut wood. More
Prism House + Terrace Room by Smiljan Radić is an "exercise in repetition and replication"
A tree grows through a wooden deck between two angular black volumes that form this house that architect Smiljan Radić has designed near a national park in Chile. More
Concrete colonnade wraps 54-metre-long house in Bolivia
A slender, lush garden is hidden behind the walls of this long concrete house in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, designed by local firm Sommet. More
"The best house" readers have ever seen features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes "the best house" Dezeen readers have ever seen. More
Concrete balconies and planters front Lima apartments by Barclay & Crousse
Architecture firm Barclay & Crousse has used concrete plant plots overspilling with greenery to offer residents of an apartment building in Lima privacy. More
Photographs reveal curved yellow wall wrapping rooftop terrace of Los Vilos House by Cristián Boza
Photographer Cristobal Palma has captured late Chilean architect Cristián Boza's cliffside retreat, which was built in the 1990s and features a winding yellow wall and circular swimming pool. More
Wavy concrete roof covers weekend retreat in Chile by Ryue Nishizawa
Tokyo firm Office of Ryue Nishizawa has created an undulating concrete roof to span a long weekend house on a promontory towards the Pacific Ocean in Chile. More
Existing trees left to grow up Guadalajara House by Alejandro Sticotti
Argentinian architect Alejandro Sticotti wrapped an outdoor lounge and dining area around two trees in this house in Mexican city Guadalajara. More
Offset shed-like volumes form Casa Aguantao on Chile's Peninsula de Rilán
Santiago studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has separated a rural house near the ocean in Chile into a pair of elevated structures topped with grooved-metal roofs. More
Black concrete skylights protrude from House for the Poem of the Right Angle by Smiljan Radić
Architect Smiljan Radić has designed this secluded black-concrete house among woodland in Vilches, Chile, to feature three huge rooflights that extend at odd angles. More
Alejandro Sticotti's holiday home in Uruguay teams weathered wood and textured concrete
Argentinean architect Alejandro Sticotti has elevated a wood-clad box above the glazed kitchen and dining room of his family's holiday home on the coast of Uruguay. More
51-1 gives culinary school in Peru an industrial aesthetic
Peruvian studio 51-1 Arquitectos has completed an academic building in Lima that is meant to serve as a "gastronomic machine" for training culinary and hospitality students. More