Alejandro Aravena

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Elemental references “double condition of castles” for cylindrical home in Mexico

December 22, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

Chilean studio Elemental has created a round concrete house called Casa del Tec outside of Monterrey, Mexico that is the prize of a raffle that funds higher education at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. Completed in 2022 in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, the three-storey textured reinforced concrete shell serves as a shell for

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Alejandro Aravena leans huge chimney against concrete house on Chilean coast

October 8, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Ocho Quebradas by Alejandro Aravena

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has hollowed the huge tilted volume of this weekend getaway along the Pacific Ocean in Chile to form an opening for a fire inside. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect, and founder of Chilean studio Elemental, designed the property for a rugged site in Los Vilos, located 250 kilometres north from Santiago. Called Ocho

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Elemental ends internships amid growing row over unpaid work in architecture studios

March 27, 2019 India Block 0

Chilean architecture studio Elemental has announced it is ending internships after getting caught up in an escalating row about the practice of unpaid labour in architecture. Elemental, headed by Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena, wrote to Dezeen today to announce the decision, saying that “given the current state of the debate … we have decided to close our

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