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Mexico Pavillion / Shangai 2010
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Mar 2009
Last week, ProMéxico announced the winning projects for the national competition to design the Mexico Pavillion in Shangai 2010.
First place was given to SLOT, Mónica Orozco, Moritz Melchert, Juan Carlos Vidal, Israel Álvarez, Mariana Tello, and Édgar Ramírez, from Mexico City.
Second place was given to the proposal by Salvador Macías, Alejandro Guerrero, Margarita Peredo, Iván Orozco, Christian Delgado, and Alejandro Arias from Guadalajara.
And third place to the proposal by Juan Carlos Seijo, Xavier Abreu, and Alejandra Abreu, from Mérida.
Unfortunately, we do not have more images for the winning projects. For more information, click here (in Spanish). Images after the break.
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- First Place
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- Third Place
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Although the name of the city is pronounced as “Shangai” in Spanish, it should be spelled as “Shanghai”.
good proyects but the first place sucks!!!
maybe what their looking for “pavilon” is not a building, that’s why the more not like building one become the first place.
The third place is a very nice bulding, i really like it
the first prize images are held by the organization, they do not want to make them public yet for confientiality reasons (????)
thanks for the link.
cheers
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Second prize seems teh ebst of all.
seems like that latin architecture (Brazil, Mexico, especially Chile) is so much better and more creative than
EUSA(EU+USA)!!!2nd place my choice
CONGRATS SALVADOR AND ALEJANDRO FOR 2ND PLACE, YOUR PROJECT WAS WAY BETTER THAN THE WINNING PROPOSAL.
It’s hard to judge the first place by those small images, furthermore, it’s really weird that they wouldn’t release more images, for confidentiality reasons?? wtf is that supposed to mean?? Anyhow, the other two projects, 2nd and third, are quite attractive. The 2nd place makes obvious references to prehispanic architecture, which is something already done in mexico many times since the 60s. Still nice project. Third place is my favorite.
first place looks happy, second too serious, third too complex, i prefer the first.
TO ANSWER JLBR COMMENT…. YES THE SECOND PROPOSAL MAKES REFERENCE TO PREHISPANIC ARCHITECURE, AND IS OUR IDENTITY AS MEXICAN ARCHITECTS, IS THE MOST RICH AND OLD ARCH. HERITAGE WE HAVE, YOU JUST CANT SAY OOOH ITS BEEN DONE BEFORE… OFCOURSE ITS BEEN DONE BEFORE!! ITS TAKING THE ESSENCE OF OUR PAST IN A CONTEMPORARY SOLUTION FOR THE WORLD TO EXPLORE.. REMEMBER… NOT EVERYONE HAS BEEN IN MEXICO TO VISIT OUR PREHISPANIC RUINS!
AGAIN I THINK IT WAS THE BETTER PROJECT OVERALL!! RESPECTFUL TO OUR HISTORY AS MEXICANS BUT MODERN FOR OUR TIME. CONGRATS.
I, as a mexican, and an architect, must say im sick of “neo” representation of pyramids, or even taking pyramids as a “concept” im mexican, i never lived in a pyramid, i dont know anyone who has lived in one, pyramids are part of aztec culture, which fused with spanish culture and created MEXICAN culture… so i dunno whats all that hype about “pyramid concepts” (and i am personally sick of it, oh, and also the bright colors as a meaning of mexico).
proposal 2? damn, that is taking pyramids and translating it into a “contemporary solution”?? gosh i thought it was more like taking MansillaTuñon’s project for the Cantabria Museum doing a scale to fit to shanghai, or maybe NietoSobejano’s project for MORITZBURG??, i might take it as again, mexican culture fusing with spanish one… from that side i can accept it, but also… those stolen projects where done almost 10 years ago… argh, i dunno, i guess first of all for a good competition you need a good jury… keep having fun my friends
loving the third place
I find the third place very interesting, full of sensorial experience… i think it’s the best! the second one looks too familiar architecture, remember the first place at 2006 Arquine’s competition, this project looks the same, i feel sorry for this guys but they need to be original themselves. try to start making some original architecture, not Mansilla Tunon projects or Nieto Sobejano’s…the first one really sucks!
as a mexican…and participant of the contest…not cool they dont show us the 1st place…the 2nd and 3nd are great…a friend ho know the integrants of 1st place tollme that 1st its amazing…but im still waiting to see it…its not cool…
In Spanish…
http://www.promexico.gob.mx/work/sites/Promexico/resources/LocalContent/639/2/BP_0949_240309.pdf
Some renders and a video from the winning project.
http://www.archtracker.com/mexican-pavilion-for-expo-2010-shanghai-china/2009/08/
Porque no le colgamos papel picado y unos somberos de charro, o ponemos unos danzantes aztecas y un altar para sacrificios, digo
a eso se reduce México no, por lo menos el primero y segundo lugar asi parecen decirlo.
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