Pereira Palace
Building in Santiago, Chile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Palacio Pereira is a historic neoclassical mansion located at the corner of San Martín and Huérfanos streets, in downtown Santiago, Chile. Built in the second half of the 19th century, it was declared a National Historic Monument in 1981, but this didn't prevent its deterioration.
Palacio Pereira | |
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General information | |
Location | Santiago, Chile |
Address | 1515 Huérfanos Street |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Lucien Henault |
In 2011, under the first presidency of Sebastián Piñera, the government bought the building to transform it into the headquarters for the Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (DIBAM) and the Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales (CMN). In 2012 an open call for an architectural competition for a preliminary restoration project was launched. The winning project, proposed by the architectural firm led by Cecilia Puga, was announced in December 2012, during the XVII Biennale of Architecture.[1][2] In 2014 the architectural design by Puga, Alberto Moletto and Paula Velasco was completed. The project was completed in 2020.[3]
The palace, along with the Former National Congress Building, served as headquarters of the Convención Constitucional,[4] the Chile's constitutional redrafting group after the national plebiscite regarding this issue held in October 2020.