ELEMENTAL   Mexico   Developed to contribute to the TEC raffle, which finances scholarships through the sale of lottery tickets and whose first prize is a house, the project had to adhere to very strict guidelines and a precise area of 600m².

Tadao Ando   Mexico   Located in the second largest industrial city in Mexico, the University of Monterrey is a private institution with more than 12,000 students. Its large campus was rounded off with this building, the RGS Center, designed for newly-established schools

WRKSHP arquitectura | urbanismo   Mexico   Designed by the Mexican firm WRKSHP, with Rigoberto Almaguer at the helm, the church for the Fuego Nuevo congregation is located in Monterrey's El Uro neighborhood. It draws its rhythm from an interplay of solids and voids that lets daylight in. With

Miró Rivera Architects Ibarra Aragón Arquitectura   Mexico   A work of the Texas-based practice of Juan Miró from Spain and Miguel Rivera from Puerto Rico, in association with the Mexican firm Ibarra Aragón Arquitectura, this complex of mixed uses – apartments, offices, and retail – stands 95 meters on a plot

Alberto Campo Baeza Gilberto L. Rodríguez   Mexico   Built as the prize in the traditional annual Tec lottery of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) with the purpose of raising funds for projects as grants for its students, this house is a tribute to Mexican architecture.

Moneo Brock   Mexico   The house is located in the southern border of Monterrey (Mexico), close to Chipinque ecological park, an urban landscape dominated by the Sierra Madre mountain range. The house’s design addresses the features of a plot marked by the presence of four

Moneo Brock   Mexico   With its alterpieces all lit and the way it opens itself to the city, the church reinterprets the features of the traditional prototype of the Christian temple, adapting the buildig to the cultural context. 

Alejandro Aravena ELEMENTAL   Mexico   The high prices of housing in Mexico make it very difficult for low-income families to have access to an adequate dwelling. Encouraged by the previous experiences in Chile, the IVNL (housing institute of Nuevo León) decided to commission Elemental to

Zaha Hadid Architects   Mexico   The first Mexican project of the firm Zaha Hadid Architects is in Monterrey, in the Huajuco Canyon, and provides 981 stacked living units varying in size between 45 and 165 square meters and distributed in a total floor area of 137,000 square meters.

The series ‘Alta Densidad’ (‘High-density’) by photographer and architect Jorge Taboada (Monterrey, Mexico, 1974) includes aerial photographs taken on the outskirts of sprawling Latin American cities. These images of beautiful fractals, where people