Edificio Ariztía is a building located at 52 Nueva York Street in downtown

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, on a wedge-shaped

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. It was completed in 1921 and is considered the first "skyscraper" in Santiago. The building, constructed in

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, was the first office building in Santiago with an elevator.

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