Alemparte Barreda Wedeles Besançón Arquitectos y Asociados

What Alemparte Barreda Wedeles Besançón Arquitectos y Asociados does

Alemparte Barreda Wedeles Besançón Arquitectos y Asociados (ABWB) is a Chilean partnership architecture firm founded in 1953 and headquartered in Providencia, Santiago. The firm offers three core service lines: Arquitectura (architecture), Interiorismo (interior design), and Diseño de Urbanismo (urban planning), delivered across commercial real estate, hospitality, healthcare, education, residential, and mixed-use developments. ABWB has completed more than 3.5 million m² of built work and operates in seven countries (Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, USA, and Spain), with marquee projects including the 710,000 m² Costanera Center (the tallest tower in South America), Hotel Ritz Carlton, Hotel Intercontinental, Clínica Dávila, Clínica Universidad de los Andes, and the Universidad de los Andes Decanatos building.

The firm operates a multigenerational team model, pairing founding-era partners (Manuel Wedeles Grez, joined 1974; Yves Besançon Prats, joined 1977) with a new generation admitted in the 2010s (Amalia Barreda Blackburn in 2011, Manuel Wedeles Tondreau in 2019). Core technology is BIM-based design coordination and 3D modeling/animation for visualization, led by specialist Wilfried Gfell. The firm maintains co-development partnerships with tier-one international firms, including SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) on Edificio Birman (1999) and Pelli Clarke Pelli on the Costanera Center tower (2014).

ABWB is a private sociedad de profesionales with 11–50 employees and no disclosed revenue, external investors, parent company, or subsidiaries. Revenue is generated on a project-by-project professional services basis with custom-quoted fees, distributed through direct enterprise engagement with developers, hotel chains, healthcare institutions, and universities. The firm has been recognized with the 2011 AOA Medal for Architectural Trajectory and the 2018 Gran Medalla AOA. Marketing relies on the firm's portfolio, the company website (abwb.cl), and an Instagram channel (@abwb_arquitectos), with no paid acquisition or formal sales motion.

Name

Alemparte Barreda Wedeles Besançón Arquitectos y Asociados

Legal name

Alemparte Barreda Wedeles Besançon Arquitectos y Asociados

Website

https://abwb.cl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1953

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ABWB is a Chilean partnership architecture firm founded in 1953, offering architecture, interior design, and urban planning services to enterprise clients in hospitality, healthcare, commercial real estate, and education across seven Latin American and European countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Providencia

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Architecture Services: Full-service architecture for commercial, residential, hospitality, healthcare, educational, and mixed-use projects including master planning, design, and construction supervision
2. Interior Design Services:
3. Urban Planning Design: Urban space planning and design focused on community life and harmonious coexistence between inhabitants and territory

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

ABWB is a professional architecture firm delivering architectural design, interior design, and urban planning services across commercial, hospitality, healthcare, education, residential, and mixed-use developments. Services encompass master planning, design development, construction supervision, and interior architecture, executed with BIM systems and 3D visualization by multigenerational teams of architects. Projects are delivered on a custom, project-by-project basis for enterprise clients in Chile and internationally.

Product overview

ABWB is an architecture and interior design firm offering three core service lines: Arquitectura (Architecture), Interiorismo (Interior Design), and Diseño de Urbanismo (Urban Planning Design). The firm provides architectural and interior design services across diverse sectors including commercial, residential, hospitality (hotels), healthcare (clinics and medical facilities), mixed-use, office buildings, retail centers, and educational facilities. The firm operates as a professional services company rather than a software product company, with its 'products' being the architectural and design services it delivers to clients. Notable project types include office towers, shopping malls, hotels, hospitals, educational buildings, and residential complexes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architectural Design Services (Arquitectura) Full-cycle architectural design services for large-scale commercial, residential, hospitality, healthcare, educational, and mixed-use developments, including master planning, design development, and construction supervision. Delivered by multigenerational teams of architects with BIM and 3D visualization capabilities for enterprise clients across Chile and internationally.
• Interior Design Services (Interiorismo) Interior architecture and decoration services across all sectors, led by partner Amalia Barreda Blackburn, specializing in corporate, health, hospitality, retail, and shopping center projects. Space planning, interior decoration, and lighting design for hotels, offices, clinics, and commercial spaces.
• Urban Planning Design (Diseño de Urbanismo) Urban space planning and design focused on community life and harmonious coexistence between inhabitants and territory. Includes residential community master planning, golf course projects, landscape integration, and clubhouse design for large-scale housing developments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 3.5 million m² of completed projects across Chile and 6 other countries
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Pelli Clarke Pelli ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Collaboration for Costanera Center tower design - the 64-story, 300-meter tower, the tallest in South America. Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects designed the iconic tower component of this 710,000 m² mixed-use project.
• Jack Nicklaus (Golf Course Design)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Golf course design for Patagonia Virgin, a 200-hectare mixed-use project in Frutillar, Chile.
• Juan Grimm (Landscaping)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Landscape design for Patagonia Virgin project.
• Turner ArquitectosminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Architecture project development for Clínica MEDS, a 12,000 m² sports medicine clinic in Lo Barnechea.
• Manuel Durán I.minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Collaboration on Centro Plaza Concepción, a 22,206 m², 17-story office building.
• Juan Eduardo SotomayorminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2000Associated architect for Torre Centenario, a 47,000 m², 29-story office building.
• SOM - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLPcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1999International architecture partnership for Edificio Birman project (43,980 m², 18-story office building). SOM is one of the world's leading architecture firms.
• Oltmann Ahlers W.minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1998Collaboration on Edificio Capitolio (ITAU), a 30,000 m² office building.
• Gage Davis Associates (U.S.A.)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993Basic urban design and golf course design for Condominio Las Brisas de Santo Domingo, a 300-hectare residential development.
• Juan Grimm (Landscaping)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993Landscape design for Condominio Las Brisas de Santo Domingo.
• Enrique Concha (Interior Design)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993Interior decoration for club house at Condominio Las Brisas de Santo Domingo.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM): Global architecture and engineering firm that partnered with ABWB on Edificio Birman. Overlaps in commercial office and large-scale development work, with significantly larger global footprint.
• Gensler: Global architecture and design firm with significant presence in commercial, hospitality, and healthcare sectors across Latin America. Comparable in vertical mix but operates at vastly larger scale.
• Pelli Clarke & Partners: Global architecture firm that collaborated with ABWB on the Costanera Center tower. Comparable in delivering trophy commercial towers and large-scale mixed-use projects, though at vastly larger scale.

Direct peers

• Teodoro Fernández Arquitectos: Chilean architecture firm with a parallel portfolio of commercial, cultural, and institutional projects. Comparable in Chilean prestige and boutique scale.
• Fernández Prieto Arquitectos: One of Chile's most established architecture firms, founded in 1957. Closely comparable to ABWB in vintage, scale, and project portfolio across commercial, hospitality, and educational buildings.
• BBATS - Bannen, Barayón, Armas, Tenaud, Stephan: Chilean architecture firm with comparable vintage and similar portfolio across commercial, healthcare, and educational buildings. Closest direct competitor in the mid-size Chilean architecture segment.
• Lyon Bosch + Martic Arquitectos: Chilean architecture firm with comparable project scope across commercial, residential, and institutional projects. Direct domestic peer in mid-size Chilean architecture.
• Mathias Klotz Arquitectos: Chilean architect and namesake practice with strong portfolio in cultural, residential, and commercial buildings. Comparable in Chilean prestige and comparable in boutique-firm scale.
• Cruz y Browne Arquitectos: Chilean architecture firm with a similar mid-century vintage and overlapping healthcare, commercial, and educational portfolio. Direct domestic peer.
• Izquierdo Lehmann Arquitectos: Chilean architecture firm with comparable vintage and overlapping commercial, residential, and educational portfolio. Direct domestic peer in Chile's boutique architecture segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/abwb_arquitectos
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/abwb_arquitectos_y_asociados

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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