Chilean architects Mathias Klotz and Lillian Allen have renovated a castle-like residence in Santiago's Parque Forestal to create a restaurant, exhibition space and ice-cream parlour (+ slideshow). More about Restaurant Castillito by Mathias Klotz and Lillian Allen
German photographer Roland Halbe has taken new photographs of Casa Klotz, a rural beach house in Chile by architect Mathias Klotz (+ slideshow). More about Casa Klotz by Mathias Klotz photographed by Roland Halbe
The rural Lo Barnechea commune in the north-eastern area of Santiago city is the setting for this small oak-clad house by architectural firm emA (+ slideshow). More about Hijuela El Durazno Caretaker's House by emA
Chilean architect Pedro Gubbins designed this concrete residence as a rural retreat for himself and his family and has balanced it on top of a dry-stone wall (+ slideshow). More about Omnibus House by Gubbins Arquitectos
This stop-frame movie by American photographer James Florio documents the day and night-time scenes at Elqui Domos, a hotel for stargazers in Chile's Elqui Valley. More about Hotel Elqui Domos filmed by James Florio
Board-formed concrete walls mirror the grained texture of timber screens at this hillside house in Chile by Santiago-based Gubbins Arquitectos. More about Casa Mava by Gubbins Arquitectos
Panoramic Pacific views can be enjoyed from terraces created by the tiered levels of this hillside house in Chile by architects Elton + Léniz (+ slideshow). More about Casa El Pangue by Elton + Léniz
The Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 closes this weekend and this movie by Cristobal Palma shows how visitors to the Chilean Pavilion had to walk over a bed of salt while viewing proposals for Chile's public spaces on glowing boxes suspended from the ceiling. More about Chilean Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
This earthquake-proof house on a hillside in western Chile by architects Pezo von Ellrichshausen has six rooms with glass walls (+ photos by Cristobal Palma). More about Casa Arco by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Chilean architects Surco Studio have completed a rusted steel and concrete entrance and administration block for a school in Chile that was severely damaged by an earthquake. More about Administration Curricular Building Liceo María Auxiliadora by Surco Studio
Chilean architects Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy designed this house in Santo Domingo as a cluster of prefabricated modules made from structural insulated panels. More about SIP Panel House by Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us photographs and a movie that he shot of the Chilean Pavilion at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong biennale of urbanism/architecture 2011, where objects usually found in disaster relief shelters were used as furniture. More about Gimme Shelter! by Sebastián Irarrázaval and Hugo Mondragón
Daylight floods into the reading rooms of this Chilean library though the high level windows of faceted ventilation stacks. More about Taltal Public Library by Murúa-Valenzuela
A herb garden surrounds this glass-fronted spa in Santiago by Chilean studio LAND Arquitectos. More about Spa Atrapa Árbol by LAND Arquitectos
A Corten steel roof folds over the upper storey and terrace of this house on the Chilean Island of Chiloé by dRN Architects. More about House at Punta Chilen by dRN Architects
Chilean architects Panorama have completed this compact cliff-top house in Matanzas, Chile. More about D House by Panorama
This house by Chilean firm Moure Rivera Arquitectos is based on Euclidean mathematics, the earliest known system of geometry. More about House A by Moure Rivera Arquitectos
Chilean studio Duarte Arquitectos have designed an apartment building for a hill-top in Valparaiso, Chile. More about San Juan de Dios Apartments by Duarte Arquitectos
Architects Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa have won a competition to reuse a former prison in Talca, Chile, as a public space and arena. More about Espacio Talca by Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa
Chilean digital design and fabrication studio GT2P have designed a table made of intersecting two-dimensional forms that are designed using parametric software. More about The Sectionimal by GT2P