Uploaded on 2017-01-03 by André Baltazar de Lima Barreto

The Gran Costanera Center, in Santiago, Chile, has a 50.000m² curtain wall which glazing was imported from China, because there wasn't any company in South America able to attend this demand (source: https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Gran_Torre_Santiago_-_Gran_Costanera_Tower). By the way, China is the top exporter of building materials (source: http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/sitc/6624/) and the top import origin in Latin America countries as Chile (source: http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/chl/) and my home country, Brazil (source: http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/bra/), which shows how globalized economy in building construction connects countries so far away.