Umberto Bonomo and Felipe Alarcón have created a house with an exterior of cinder blocks, overlooking sweeping views of Chile's rugged Pacific coastline. More about LBS house is a cinder block retreat on rugged Chilean coastline
A black holiday home by Chilean architecture studio Elton Léniz is lifted off the ground by wooden stilts to help reduce the building's impact on the earth. More about Elton Léniz perches Casa BB on hillside overlooking Chilean lake
A concrete podium topped with a sculptural, glazed volume forms Casa S, a cliffside Chilean house by architecture firms Gubbins Polidura Arquitectos and Más Arquitectos. More about Casa S is an amoeba-shaped home on the coast of Chile
Izquierdo Lehmann Arquitectos and Francisco Saul have completed a block of five row houses in Santiago, which are grouped under a large roof to give the impression of a single residence. More about Glue-laminated timber structure forms San Crescente housing block in Santiago
Architects Cecilia Puga, Paula Velasco and Alberto Moletto have restored Santiago's Palacio Pereira, an abandoned 19th-century neoclassical mansion, turning it into offices where Chile's new constitution will be written. More about Historic Palacio Pereira in Santiago turned into Chile's Ministry of Culture
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 about Cristobal Palma documents streets of Santiago during protests
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 about Guillermo Acuña raises seaside annexe on forest of red-painted pine stilts
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 about Architect builds his own blackened pine-clad house 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 about Croxatto and Opazo Architects perches timber-clad cabins on coastal hillside in Chile
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 about Matías Zegers Arquitectos builds stone courtyard house in Chilean wine country
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 about Small La Invernada cabin glows in Chilean forest at night
Lima studio Barclay & Crousse has completed this house with reddish stone and concrete walls, and dramatically slanted roofs to echo mountains. More about Peruvian mountains surround geometric and red Casa Huayoccari by Barclay & Crousse
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 about Slatted wood encloses glass Engawa House in Chile
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 about Red roofs are layered atop wooden frame of Casa Malalcahuello by GAAA
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 about Prism House + Terrace Room by Smiljan Radić is an "exercise in repetition and replication"
A slender, lush garden is hidden behind the walls of this long concrete house in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, designed by local firm Sommet. More about Concrete colonnade wraps 54-metre-long house in Bolivia
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes "the best house" Dezeen readers have ever seen. More about "The best house" readers have ever seen features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Architecture firm Barclay & Crousse has used concrete plant plots overspilling with greenery to offer residents of an apartment building in Lima privacy. More about Concrete balconies and planters front Lima apartments by Barclay & Crousse
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 about Photographs reveal curved yellow wall wrapping rooftop terrace of Los Vilos House by Cristián Boza
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 about Wavy concrete roof covers weekend retreat in Chile by Ryue Nishizawa