Choosing a Chilean building is not that easy for me, because I don't know as many as I would like, so I guess I will talk about The Singular hotel. This hotel is located in Patagonia, about 5 minutes away from Puerto Natales by car. Apart from the beauty of the context in which this building is inserted, I like it because is a reference of good intervention on a patrimonial building, oriented to let the background of the building be in sight and, at the same time, giving it a proposed new use. I know this building because I had to analyze it for the workshop at the begining of the third semestre, and I love the idea of making of the agricultural culture of the place, a focus of contemplation, something super representative of the society at the time, that still affects some traditions of the society nowadays. And talking about the style, the original building was conceived as industrial architecture, so, it hasn't have a design per se more than just a meat processing plant where people could work with animal stuff. However, the materials that those sheds are made of are woods and bricks from the XIX century, so it's interesting to watch the contrast that appears when you have these materials with the materials of the current hotel. I hope I can go there someday, but it's so expensive :c
Today's theme is: "an artist you like", so I'm going to talk about Frannerd. Frannerd is one of my favourite illustrators and is from Chile. I love her work, she has a simple kinda cartoony kind of style. She usually draws scenes and characters with a pretty established color palette with a lot of pink and pastel colors. I knew her about 2 years ago in youtube and suddenly I became a fan of her work and her as a person too. And even though her style is far away from the types of things that I like to draw, I feel heavely identified with her and I would like to achive the life style that she has in which she currently lives of her work as an illustrator. She is freelancer and usually makes comisions, though, her biggest income comes from her online shop, her planners and her books(one of which I've got by the way)). Frannerd is one of my biggest benchmarks showing me that even if you are from South America, specially Chile and you didn't study illustration, yo...

I really liked the way you describe it, it sounds like a beautiful sight. too bad it's expensive.
ResponderEliminarI believe that the patrimonial buildings must´n be taking part for the people, however, this architectural proposal look so interisting.
ResponderEliminarI dind´t know this building, with that landscape everything seems better
ResponderEliminarooh Benjamin that hotel Jajajaj I would like to spend a night there , Regards Brooo
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