In the midst of the bustling metropolis of Santiago, a pair of linked houses form an urban oasis, bringing a new dimension to duplex living.

It was while visiting Rio de Janeiro in 2007 to celebrate the 100th birthday of his friend Oscar Niemeyer that Richard Meier met the clients who would commission his first ever project in South America.

When Spanish restaurateur and hotelier Tomás Tarruella decided to open Barcelona’s first upmarket vegetarian eatery, he once again turned to Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld to design the interior.

With twin political and economic crises in Brazil right now, it is hardly the best time to be hosting this summer’s Olympic Games.

Established in Rio de Janeiro’s northern neighborhood of Tijuca in 1973, the MOPI school was planning to open a facility in the rapidly growing Barra region to the west.

A vertical campus for a new urban university in Lima, Peru, rises to the occasion by fitting in.

After decades spent in thrall to the car, which brought it epic traffic jams across an ever-expanding urban sprawl, the Brazilian city of São Paulo has finally decided to try something different. Image courtesy Prefeitura de São Paulo The plan calls for an overhaul of the city's building code in order to accomodate taller mixed-use buildings. Fernando Haddad, the mayor of this metropolis of nearly

These are exciting times in Brazil. Next month, the country will host a party of global proportions when 12 of its cities stage soccer's World Cup. 

Rodrigo Mindlin Loeb, with his former professor Eduardo Riesenkampf de Almeida, designed the Brasiliana Library at the University of São Paulo, which houses the collection of rare books on Brazilian history and culture donated by Loeb's grandparents Guita and José Mindlin.

Pedro Rivera is a graduate of the architecture program at the Federal University in his native Rio de Janeiro.