© Rafael Gamo
Architects: Arqmov Workshop
Location: Mexico City, DF
Builder: Espacio Vectorial
Built Area: 2000 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photography: Rafael Gamo
Courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners
Richard Meier & Partners revealed today their most recent work in Mexico City. The new Mitikah Office Tower is the third project designed in Mexico by Richard Meier & Partners which will be a state-of-the-art building in the Delegacion Benito Juarez area. The tower will be part of a mixed use master plan designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and developed by IDEURBAN/IDCity from Mexico. The scheme consists of commercial space, low-rise residential buildings, and a hotel and residential tower. More images and project description after the break. read more »
© Paúl Rivera
Architectural Project: Rojkind Arquitectos + Esrawe Studio
Location: Polanco, Mexico City
Project Team (Rojkind Arquitectos): Tere Levy, Agustín Pereyra, Raúl Araiza, Carlos Alberto Ríos, Isaac Smeke J., Enrique F. de la Barrera, Daniela Bustamante, Daniel Hernández
Project Team (ESRAWE Studio): Ricardo Casas, Basia Pineda, Ian Castillo, Karianne Rygh, Alejandra Castelao, Jorge Bracho, Alejandro Zárate, Marcela Muñoz, Edgar Sánchez, Rodrigo L. Franco
Construction Area: 629 sqm
Status: Completed
Design Date: 2009
Completion Date: 2011
Photographer: Paúl Rivera
© LGM Studio - Luis Gallardo
Architects: Taller Tiliche
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Team: Alberto Bustamante, Rodrigo Escandón, Manuel Bueno, Jerónimo Jiménez, Guillermo González, Jessica Sherwell
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: LGM Studio – Luis Gallardo
© Jorge Taboada
Architects: Darkitectura / Julio Juarez
Location: Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Project Team: Brenda Vizcaíno, Ernesto Viterbo
Project Area: 380 sqm
Photographs: Jorge Taboada
Photo by Aaron Forrest - http://www.flickr.com/photos/recluse26/
The Cosmic Rays Pavilion represents one of the first experiments with parabolic structures. The double curved structure is made of a very thin layer of concrete, exemplifying its structural and design capabilities. These mathematically complex structures define the popular architecture of the pavilion’s designer Felix Candela. read more »
© Rafael Gamo
Architects: ARCHETONIC / Jacobo Micha Mizrahi; PROARQUITECTURA / Yack Amkie
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 18,000 sqm
Photographs: Rafael Gamo, Aldo Moreno
Courtesy of Federal District Public Space Authority
To say New York’s High Line is a successful project is putting it very lightly. From the moment the overgrown landscape opened, thousands have flocked to experience the amazing public space and dozens have been inspired to incorporate similar urban reuse attitudes in their cities. Ruth Samuelson shared Mexico City’s inspired project which seeks to apply the New York High Line’s sense of serenity to a busy intersection by mid-2012. “The High Line in New York seemed to me a fresh breath of air, completely. Mexico City just needs – within so many streets, so many avenues – respite like this,” explained Daniel Escotto Sánchez, the general coordinator for the city’s Public Space Authority.
More about the project after the break. read more »
© Blake Marvin
Architect: HKS, Inc.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Team: Enrique Greenwell, Bruce E. Johnson, Dulce Torres
General Contractor: Abitat
MEP Engineer: Hector Gomez Engineers
Structural Engineer: Correa Hermanos S.A. de C.V.
Project Area: 65,000 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Blake Marvin, HKS Inc.
© Paul Rivera, ArchPhoto
Architects: Parque Humano / Jorge Covarrubias, Benjamín González Henze
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1,310 sqm
Photographs: Paul Rivera, ArchPhoto
© Luis Gordoa
The Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired was created as part of a program by the Mexico City government to provide services to one of the most disadvantaged and highly-populated areas of the city; Iztapalapa is the district with the largest visually impaired population in the Mexican capital.
Architect: Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Team: Arturo Mera , Cristobal Pliego, María Elena Reyes, , Ivan Camacho, Iris Sosa, Jose Luis Acevedo, Victor Limón, Vanessa Loya, Juan Manuel Moreno, Francisco Manterola, Daniela Gallen, Erick Hernández, Francisco Ortiz
Landscape Architect: Jerónimo Hagerman
Furniture: Salvador Quiroz, Iluminación Lidxi Biaani
Estructura: Grupo Sai.
Contractor: Grupo Quart
Project Area: 8,500 sqm
Project Year: 2001
Photographs: Luis Gordoa
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The Earthscraper, designed by BNKR Arquitectura, is the Skyscraper’s antagonist in the historic urban landscape of Mexico City where the latter is condemned and the preservation of the built environment is the paramount ambition. It preserves the iconic presence of the city square and the existing hierarchy of the buildings that surround it. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
© Courtesy of Arditti + RDT Architects
Architects: Arditti + RDT Architects
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Client: Fundación Memoria y Tolerancia A.C.
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 7,500 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Arditti + RDT Architects
Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos / Michel Rojkind
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Direction and Coordination: Grupo Elipse
Interior Design: Buddha Bar Hotels & Spas
Renderings: Rojkind Arquitectos, dbox
© Sófocles Hernández
Architects: ROW Studio / Álvaro Hernández Félix, Nadia Hernández Félix, Alfonso Maldonado Ochoa
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 23.97 sqm
Photographs: Sófocles Hernández
© Courtesy of Pascal Arquitectos
Architects: Pascal Arquitectos
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 624.42 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Pascal Arquitectos
© Jimena Carranza
Architects: Alonso de Garay Architects
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Client: Tierra Capital S.A de C.V
General contractor: Rodolfo Ortega ORAR
Landscaping: Jeronimo Gabayet
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Jimena Carranza
© Paúl Rivera - archphoto
Architects: JSª – Javier Sánchez
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Design Team: Juan Manuel Soler, Mariana Paz, Alejandro Ita, Karen Cheirif
Project area: 14.667 sqf
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Jair Navarrete, Paúl Rivera – archphoto, Pedro Hiriart
© Víctor Benítez
Architects: Pascal Arquitectos – Carlos Pascal and Gerard Pascal
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Construction: Rafael Salame
Photographs: Víctor Benítez
Caramel: Forget Architecture / Caramel Architekten
We recently received a book from Caramel Architekten. We previously featured four of their projects if you would like a taste of their work (click here). The book is presented in both German and English and offers a wonderful insight…
Construction Manual for Polymers + Membranes / Knippers, Cremers, Gabler, Lienhard
From the history of plastics and membranes in architecture to their material properties and requirements in construction and design, the Construction Manual for Polymers + Membranes cuts to the chase, providing the kind of solid and comprehensive overview of…
Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form
Thom Mayne recently sent us his latest book, Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form. MIT Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Alan Berger, hails this book as “nothing short of a tour de force and should be…
