We are pleased to announce that our project Factoría Italia has been awarded First Prize in the Works Category at the XXIII Chilean Architecture Biennial.
This achievement crowns a twelve–year trajectory marked by discontinuous progress, shaped by episodes of social unrest, economic downturns, global pandemics, and limited investment. Despite these constraints, the project—currently in the process of completing its third development phase—has been widely acknowledged and positively received by its users as a meaningful contribution to the public realm from a privately driven initiative.
Factoría Italia has succeeded in reactivating and revalorizing the industrial heritage of Santiago de Chile, consolidating itself as a contemporary architectural intervention that mediates between memory, adaptive reuse, and urban regeneration, while reaffirming the relevance of industrial patrimony as a catalyst for social and spatial transformation.