Santiago Architecture Part 2 — Downtown “Sanhattan”

Looks like a Cell Phone — Torre Telefónica (Telephone Tower) Building

Not all the buildings in Santiago are old. There is a newer section of town that is a modern sea of glistening glass and structural steel. That’s the “Sanhattan” area of Santiago, a made-up word that combines “Santiago” and “Manhattan”, and justifiably so. The photograph above depicts the cell phone-shape of Chile’s telephone company, which at one time was the tallest structure in Santiago. Today it’s number five. The curre...