The Edificio José Miguel Carrera is the headquarters of the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores of Chile, located in the Civic District of Santiago, facing the Plaza de la Constitución.
[1] The Hotel Carrera was designed in the Art Deco style by architects Josué Smith Solar and José Smith Miller, as part of the creation of a Civic District centered around La Moneda Palace.
[2] Opened in 1940, it was one of the first multi-story buildings constructed from reinforced concrete in Chile.
During the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, the hotel's terrace roof and its windows were used by foreign journalists to record the bombing of La Moneda Palace.
[1] The structure was remodeled and reopened in 2005 as an office building, renamed Edificio José Miguel Carrera, housing the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile.