Comments on: Nestlé Application Group Querétaro / Rojkind Arquitectos

By: Queretaro Hotels

Queretaro Hotels — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:10:08 +0000

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By: Arquitectos Latinos - Comunidad de Arquitectura y Diseño Latinoamericano. » Nestle Querétaro, Rojkind Arquitectos

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:53:08 +0000

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By: Franco

Franco — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:48:01 +0000

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By: Innovative Design: Nestle headquarters in Queretaro - Style of Design

Innovative Design: Nestle headquarters in Queretaro - Style of Design — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:22:00 +0000

[...] After creating a tempting chocolate museum for Nestlé, Rojkind Arquitectos have been challenged to put up a new design a new facility in Querétaro, with laboratories, offices, an auditorium and a tasting area. That’s not much of a deal unless you consider the fact that in 1996 the center of Querétaro was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. But much can be done with a little creativity, isn’t it? The innovative architects managed to work around the conundrum by excavating a series of intersected spheres from orthogonal buildings, excavations which repeated through an open and continuous space. This along with simple use of semi-spherical domes ensured that the latest “nest” for Nestlé, turned out as an absolute masterpiece. – via [...]

By: jlbr

jlbr — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:04:22 +0000

ElMojado:
I understand your critiques and arguments, and yes, that part about the “historical constraints” thing does not make sense for two reasons:
1. I doubt this building is in the historical center, being an industrial building, I doubt it. Therefore, if it is not in the historical center, there is no constraint in the design, because buildings built outside a certain delimitation are not required to follow those constraints. Also, if you look at the pictures, the place seems to be located in an open area, not in the historical center of Queretaro.

2. I think the text should have said that Rojkind was inspired by the colonial architecture of Mexico and Queretaro in particular, and thus re-interpreted that architecture by designing this building. Or so I am interpreting things… someone tell me I’m wrong.

By: Innovative Design: Nestle headquarters in Queretaro

Innovative Design: Nestle headquarters in Queretaro — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:51:10 +0000

By: Katsudon

Katsudon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:22:41 +0000

Ah? I’m surprised to see so much negative comments here. I like it very much! And i love this yellowish orange… probably because it remembers me Lego bricks color quite a lot hehe. And the finishes looks very nice that can make simple shapes awesome. No really, Nice job to me, although the text explanations from the architect sound a little simplist.

By: armeyn

armeyn — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:00:16 +0000

feel nothing special for this project.. :(

By: El Mojado

El Mojado — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:15:29 +0000

Dear jlbr & Rodrigo,

There’s no harm done anywhere, there are to main concerns I bring with at the moment, one related to Archdaily, the other the project.

1.With regards to archdaily, I am questioning the actual editorializing of if you prefer, curatorial selection of the entries…I just came over a couple of projects including this one that make me askmyself if this blog, that has so efficiently posted excellent architecture, might somehow end up being like any city or like shopping in a thrift store: there is a lot of seasonal garbage of past years and you have to dig for treasure, which would be quite contrary to what Plataforma Arquitectura or this started up as.

2.With regards to this project, google up queretaro, specially in regards to the quoted text about the historical “requirements” and well, you have to wonder just how did they get away with this. I’m pondering on Mexican politics, realities and cultural context (of a work, be it this one or whichever), in this case, the main objection to the apprehension of the work is simply my cynical response to my own pondering: through diva-esque emblematic branding of late-90s early 00s architecture. My critique is to both the relevance of the work discursively and to the immediacy of this type of language. So…since I’ve been there done that there, I argue.

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:37:06 +0000

OH!!! what a mess guys…

i agree with -jlbr- !!!!!