Foster & Partners has been appointed to its first project in Chile, a mixed-use factory reuse project in the capital, Santiago.

The practice revealed images of its masterplan proposals for La Fabrica, which will add 550 flats on a plot next to the mid-century former textile factory in the industrial neighbourhood of San Joaquin.

The flats will be in four eight-storey blocks at the north-west corner of the factory, ranged around a central square and a series of smaller courtyards.

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