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By: francis

francis — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:43:24 +0000

So … this is how the well-heeled get their fix. It is a stage for the “transient and rootless” (read Terry’s commentary): where it lacks intimacy; it provides theatre. You get to hangout over a “camp fire”, scale the “Aztec steps”, swim in the “fish-tank” … exactly how the toffs go camping, yah? I fail to see Terry’s comment on “the compressed space of the dining hall pushing the eye out to the view” is breathtaking, but it is definitely stark (punt intended) throughout. In Mexico, the masterful Barragan’s work touches every designer/architect, and I can see the office of Legoretta + Legoretta is no exception.
This project seems to be a landscaping exercise, and theatre is at the heart of it. It is successful, well laid out and I am sold just by the photo of the entrance’s dilapidated walls with the iconic Che peeking out. Now, I’ll just have to fiddle my expenses and book myself a few nights there! However, I do prefer the COMO group hotels, if that is all we are talking about.

By: Layev

Layev — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:03:00 +0000

Puebla is such a beautiful city! I’m planning to visit again this year, ill make sure to check out this hotel, looks quite unique!

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By: Terry Glenn Phipps

Terry Glenn Phipps — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:20:51 +0000

This is such a fascinating project to see because it is just enough outside of the established Legoretta canon that the hand of the master is legible alongside the influence of the second generation.
It is extremely tempting to think that the embrace of self-consciously luxurious features such as onyx bathrooms, transparent closets, and glass swimming pools represent a dilution of the clarity of Arch. Legoretta’s purity and spartan character. Even when his residences have been enormous, 2000 sq. meters or more, they have historically retained their informality in tension with monumental scale.
Here too there is divine poetry. The staircase is simply magical with its suspended spatial confabulator/lantern (I don’t know what else to call it?). Too the compressed space of the dining hall pushing the eye out to the view is breathtaking.
Everyone has had to make concessions to the distorted expectations of travelers the age of Balazs, Starck, and their imitators. Indeed the general fame of the architect and the wealth of the clientele bring new expectations and a different dialectic.
In this I see a parallel to the late work of Neutra (1960-1970) when the master, by then copied by a new generation of architects who by some measure represented competition, began to explore new technologies and materials within an undiminished (or perhaps even increased) capacity to paint lyrical and elegiac space. Somehow Neutra’s late projects suffered from finicky and overly precious new materials with which a steady hand was unfamiliar. However, those spaces simultaneously gained something intangible from an older man’s renewed confidence to experiment.
The Legoretta houses I have personally experienced (Bilger and Montalban) lead me to believe that this architecture benefits from the juxtaposition of grandeur and simplicity and suffers from the kind of luxurious detailing shown here. Indeed in the Bilger and Montalban projects the architecture becomes a deceptively simple stage for the clients who are absolutely larger than life. Here the story is reversed for clients who are guests of a hotel, by definition transient and momentarily rootless – perhaps needing more coddling and ostentation.
Terry Glenn Phipps

By: Terry Glenn Phipps

Terry Glenn Phipps — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:20:08 +0000

Is there some valid reason to censor my commentary????

By: HSXK

HSXK — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:13:20 +0000

I hope I will have money to go there.

By: dustin

dustin — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:59:57 +0000

You will not regret it, whenever I am in Puebla i visit it.

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