Courtesy of Architectural Association

The Architectural Association is organizing a visiting school in Mexico City titled, “Recovering Waterscapes”, which focuses on the challenges created by the changing city on this scarce resource. The event is scheduled to take place on the 5th-14th of January 2011 at Universidad Iberoamericana. More event description after the break. read more »

© Migdal Arquitectos

Architects: Migdal Arquitectos / Jaime Varon, Abraham Metta, Alex Metta
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of Migdal Arquitectos

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© Glessner Group with artist Guido Torres

Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos + ESRAWE Studio
Location: Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico
Project Area: 629 sqm
Design Year: 2009
Construction Year: 2009-2010
Renders: Glessner Group
Photographs: Guido Torres & Rojkind Arquitectos

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Courtesy of Dellekamp Arquitectos

Mexico-based Dellekamp Arquitectos shared with us ‘New Palace-Lecumberri’, their proposal for the new archive in Mexico City Competition. They were one of the two finalists. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »

© Willem Schalkwijk

Architects: SPACE – Juan Carlos Baumgartner
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Area: 1,000 m2
Photography: Willem Schalkwijk

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© Sófocles Hernández

Architect: Juan Garduño / Garduño Arquitectos
Location: Bosque de las Lomas, Mexico City, Mexico
Design team: Ricardo Guzmán, Ernesto Flores, Daniel Banda, Athos Sajid
Client: BICYQ Construcciones
Builder: BICYQ Construcciones
Project size: 35,090 sqf
Design period: 2008
Completion period: 2010
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ROW Studio designed a new luxury apartment complex in a heavily wooded area in southern Mexico City. The buildings are placed around the existing trees and all facades are covered with plants to conceal the structures.  This strategy gives the interiors “the sensation of living in the treetops”.  Parking and service areas are located below the buildings to maximize the porosity of the soil and to avoid any visual obstruction on the ground level.  There is a visual continuous garden, from the entry of the complex to the back of the site, as greenery flows from the ground level, up the facades of the buildings and into the surroundings.   The ground level apartments are protected with a “land fold” of bushes for privacy which also screen their private patio.     Wooden rooftop decks provide great areas for gatherings, meals, parties or to just simply enjoy garden views.

More images after the break.

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© Paul Czitrom

Architects: FRENTE / Juan Pablo Maza + Jorge Yazpik
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project Team: Manuel Perez, Gabriela Morales, Arais Reyes, Verónica Espinosa
Contractor: Grupo Modulo
Constructed Area: 2,195 sqm
Each Apartment Area: 51.5 sqm
Design year: 2004
Construction year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Paul Czitrom, Onnis Luque & Juan Pablo Maza

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Experts from all continents will meet in Mexico City at the 3rd International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction in April 2010. The conference for academics and professionals from architecture, civil engineering, urban planning, natural and social sciences will advance concepts on how construction needs to be re-invented and aligned with principles of sustainable development. Limited places are available – registration is possible until the end of January 2010.

Taking an array of disciplines into consideration, the focus of the Holcim Forum will be on knowledge mining and dissemination, material and product life-cycle assessment, CO2 emissions and energy efficiency, considered deployment of means and economic resources, as well as social welfare and equity. The event will offer opportunities for networking and discussion, stimulated by keynote speeches, workshops, panel sessions and a full-day excursion aligned with the workshop themes to sites in Mexico City.

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© ROW

With a shopping center already under construction, ROW Studiowas asked to design the facade for the center in Zona Esmeralda, in Mexico City. The clients asked for an interesting, and almost contradictory mix of requirements: the façade must be both dynamic and eye-catching, while still blending into the surrounding forest line.

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Designed by LAR + Fernando Romero, the Soumaya Museum, slated for completion in 2010, will house a diverse collection of international painting, sculpture, and object art from the 14th century to the present, including the world’s second largest collection of Rodin sculptures.  Conceived as a sculpture, the museum’s amorphous form will be a contemporary icon for Mexico City that is also a functional curatorial space.

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Meir Lobaton + Kristjan Donaldson recently shared their design for a 36 story residential tower in Mexico City, Mexico.   The project addressed the balance between the desire of living in a single-family residence with the cost of the land.

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