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Architects: OAB
- Area: 289 m²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Alejo Bagué
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Manufacturers: Atlas Schindler, ATELIER, Construvida, DOCK & DOORS, FF ARQUITECTURA, Grupo Tenerife, Pacific Cast Concrete, Prodalux, REVA MANUFACTURING, TELEINTRA, Ventalum
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Lead Architects: OAB, Xavier Martí & Carlos Ferrater
Architectural Order within Urban Disorder
The Hippodrome Tower in Guadalajara, Mexico (2012-18), by OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona), is one of the crowning achievements in Carlos Ferrater’s fifty-plus years of creating architecture;on this occasion together with Xavier Martí,and with the collaboration of Álvaro Berubén. It is an irregular prism that manages to bring order to a growth area of the Jalisco capital, in which there is not onlyan unforeseenmélange of typologies—from single-family houses to tower blocks—but also no extantplan for a hierarchized road system adapted to the marked increase in traffic. The tower stands where the dramatic, unplanned survival of streets and roadways prior to urban growth abound.
