Elton Léniz perches Casa BB on hillside overlooking Chilean lake
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
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Casa S is an amoeba-shaped home on the coast of Chile
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
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Glue-laminated timber structure forms San Crescente housing block in Santiago
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
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Historic Palacio Pereira in Santiago turned into Chile's Ministry of Culture
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
