As part of a program to improve the capital’s most disadvantaged areas, a small facility provides training and meeting spaces close to what is one of the largest penitenciaries in the country. Without shutting out the street, with which it engages th
Laguna was a textile and yarn factory built in the 1920s in Mexico City’s Doctores neighborhood. Carried out by the local firm Productora (Carlos Bedoya, Víctor Jaime, Wonne Ickx, Abel Perles), the project returns the manufacturing facility to its or
This project for the design of a didactic public space was presented in a competition to rescue the natural water system of Chapultepec Forest, a green lung for the City with rivers, tributaries, and basins that compose an almost endemic landscape...
In the courtyard of a large old house in the Polanco neighborhood rises a slender mixed-use building that is considered the first ever to incorporate a high-rise timber structure. The framework of the upper levels rests on the party wall and a single
As part of a plan instigated by the regional government, a social center serving citizens of limited means and resources has opened in one of the most conflictive areas of the capital…
Part of the second section of the Chapultepec Forest in Mexico City, this environmental-culture center presents a pavilion surrounded by gardens that reference the diverse ecosystems and natural landscapes of the Cuenca del Valle de México: temperate
The story of the Anahuacalli Museum begins in the early 1940s, when the painter Diego Rivera thought of erecting a depot for his collection of pre-Hispanic pieces that would be an artwork in and of itself, habitable and capable of generating a contin
In 2015, the joint proposal presented under the choral signature MXSI – the Barcelona studio of Mara Partida and Héctor Mendoza (Mendoza Partida), and Boris Bezan (BAX Studio) – and the local office SPRB Arquitectos, led by Carlos Rodríguez and Laura
The project rotates the mesh that organizes the place to improve the orientation of the apartments and create terraces that open out to the street. The concrete structure will be painted in two tones of green to differentiate its constituent elements
The project to build a church is set forth as an opportunity to favor social cohesion in the area. The massive volume is divided into thirteen sections, each different in program, and the circulation within the enclosure is inspired by that of old ch
The building is separated from the back area of the plot (south) and inserts lightwells that also provide ventilation, transformed into gardens to bring sunlight in. The windows and materials used help differentiate common and private areas...
This bush-hammered concrete volume is organized around two spiral staircases ascending in opposite directions, located between two thick walls of services and storage; the rest of the dwelling becomes a flexible space...
South of Mexico City, in Lomas Quebradas, stands this ensemble of eight houses built by the Mexican firm Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados (PPAA). The slope of the site allows access to six of them from Calle Pino, and both pedestrian and vehicula
This is the fifth branch, in Mexico City, of the famous Tori Tori chain of Japanese restaurants. It is located on the ground floor of a corporate building in the modern business district that gives it its name, Santa Fe, and in addressing the culinar
Conceived as an invitation to think about privacy in the social networks and also about intimacy and security in the built environment, the project proposes a tree house constructed with thick glass panels instead of timber as usual... [+]
A work of two Mexican practices – Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados (PPAA) and the office of Alfonso de la Concha Rojas – built this house that engages in dialogue with the privileged forested environment of Tlalpuente. With optimal views and no n
The studio led by the Mexican Frida Escobedo has completed this residential block in Colonia Popotla, Mexico City. The project ‘folds’ the balconies inwards as private courtyards. This strategy takes inspiration from the traditional courtyard-house p
A project of the Mexican Fernanda Canales, this almost rectangular installation organized around three patios of varying size engages in a dialogue of opposite, with the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, a 1979-1981 work of Teodoro González de León and
On a plot of 7 x 14 meters, and flanked by two voids of varying height, three planes of wood, concrete, and marble configure the different floors of a tower that is wrapped in ceramic walls tightened by thin steel cables... [+]
The pavilion is based on a triangular grid system made of prefabricated modules of certified pine wood, laminated and with metallic joinery, which permits a quick assembly and adaptation to different locations and programs... [+]
This apartment block rises on a 400-square-meter plot in a central neighborhood of the southern part of Mexico City. The design of the Mexican architect Fernanda Canales starts from the idea of ensuring privacy for residents while optimizing views wi
Each with a space of 3 x 4 meters and 20 bamboo parts of 6 meters that can be connected, tied, or assembled, the 22 designs study, through different structural solutions, the possibilities of the building material and the construction methods... [+]
The Jumex Museum by David Chipperfield in Mexico City rises as an icon amid complex circumstannces. The British architect’s first work in Latin America solves three paradoxes: how to insert a building into a tight plot with fragmented surroundings; h
Para hacer prosperar las áreas con menos recursos de la Ciudad de México, el gobierno regional ha puesto en marcha una red de centros educativos para personas analfabetas o que han abandonado los estudios. En el de la colonia Presidentes, una de las
If a horizontal Babel exists, it has to be the City of Mexico. The biblical Tower of Babel was for a long time the emblem of the cupiditas aedificandi; and architects chose representations of its construction as symbols of their determination to surp
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blasted Mexico City’s new airport, and with it the signature project of his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto. After winning a much disputed competition through his solid experience in infrastructures of this k
Never in the history of Mexico had so many natural disasters happened in so few days. The month of September began with two terrible hurricanes, Irma and Katia, and ended with two devastating earthquakes; the first, on 7 September, occurred with a ma
Since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts framing the imagination of designers and builders who have been taught to t
Saturado y cada vez menos competitivo, el Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad México (AICM) necesita una urgente ampliación: 470.000 metros cuadrados en un terreno aledaño a la actual infraestructura, que costarán unos 10.000 millones de dólares. L
Continúa el tramo final de las obras del edificio para la sede del Teatro Cervantes, en México D.F., proyectado por el madrileño Ensamble Studio. El proyecto (véase AV Proyectos 48) parte del diálogo compositivo entre lo telúrico y lo solar, plantead
El actual Museo Tamayo, en el bosque de Chapultepec, México DF, es un monumental edificio de hormigón construido hace treinta años por Teodoro González de León y Abraham Zabludovsky que guarda la obra del pintor considerado el introductor de la moder
Con la inauguración del Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo se completa el plan director del Centro Cultural Universitario en Ciudad de México. Diseñado por el veterano Teodoro González de León inspirándose en la vanguardia cosmopolita y el esp
Standing 246 meters, the work of the Mexican architect Benjamín Romano has been crowned as the world’s best skyscraper
