Merida

+ 22

• Architects

  DUNAR arquitectos

• Location

  Mérida, Spain

• Architects in Charge

  Carlos Robustillo Yagüe, Fco. Javier Robustillo Yagüe

• Area

  1725.4 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  RN Fotógrafos / Nicolás Yazigi

This article was originally published on May 4, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Arches have long been used to mark the greatest achievements of Roman civilization. Constantine, Titus, and Septimus Severus built them to commemorate their military victories. Engineers at Segovia and Nîmes incorporated them into their revolutionary aqueducts. And fifteen hundred years after the Fall of Rome, Rafael Moneo gave a modern touch to the ancient structure in Mérida's breathtaking National Museum of Roman Art, located on the site of the former Iberian outpost of Emerita Augusta. Soaring arcades of simple, semi-circular arches merge historicity and contemporary design, creating a striking yet sensitive point of entry to the remains of one of the Roman Empire's greatest cities.

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+ 55

• Architects

  Alejandro Medina Arquitectura, Muñoz arquitectos, Quesnel arquitectos, Reyes Ríos + Larraín arquitectos

• Location

  Calle 59 & Calle 58, Centro, 97000 Merida, Yuc., Mexico

• Constructor

  Constructora PROSER S.A de C.V.

• Structural Calculation

  ESSSA Ingeniería Estructural, Ing. Mario Gomez Mejía, Danstek S.A.

• Design Team

  Mariana Ríos C., Natalia Ávila O., Carlos Fleischer, Manolo Rejón, Jonathan Álvarez

• Museography

  Exhibiscopio S.A. de C.V

• Area

  8840.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photography

  Onnis Luque, Cielito Drone, Pim Schalkwijk

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In his book The Right to the City (1968), Henri Lefebvre talks about ending the creation of spaces managed by the logic of profit, to launch a plan of "self-managed territory" that does not leave aside the "historical heritage," nor allow the decomposition of space, but instead works for the restitution of urban centers as places of creation.

Globalization has produced cities without limits whose focus has been on the immediate benefit, directly attacking the preservation of cultural heritage, among other things.

+ 14

• Architects

  R79

• Location

  Mérida, Mexico

• Author Architects

  Roberto Ramírez, Gerardo Trejo, Fernanda González

• Construction

  Angel Alpuche

• Area

  600.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photography

  Lorena Darquea

+ 29

• Architect

  Seijo Peon Arquitectos y Asociados

• Location

  Mérida, Mexico

• Author Architectes

  Juan Carlos Seijo Encalada

• Area

  776.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographer

  Manolo R Solís.

+ 50

• Architects

  Departamento de Proyectos de la Facultad de Arquitectura

• Location

  Carretera Mérida-Tizimín Km. 1, Cholul, 97305 Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

• Author Architects

  Roberto José Ancona Riestra

• Design Team

  Arch. Roberto José Ancona Riestra, Arch. Rosa María Martínez de Arredondo de Ancona, Arch. Marcos Roberto Zapata Dzib, Arch. Pamela Leticia Alcalá Cetz, M.I., Arch. Edgar Emmanuel Moguel Puerto, Arch. Yamil Abraham Sosa Cuevas, Arch. Gilmer Martín Ku Caamal, Arch. Victoria Guadalupe Fuentes Rivero

• Area

  5768.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Tamara Uribe

+ 26

• Architects

  Boyancé Arquitectos

• Location

  Calle 1H No. 117 Por 4Y y 4A, Colonia Residencial Montecristo, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

• Author Architect

  Gerardo Boyancé Ancona

• Architects in Charge

  Arq. Aldo Mijail Chab, Arq. Andree Pasos Dzul

• Area

  295.5 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Manolo R Solis

+ 28

• Architects

  Boyancé Arquitectos

• Location

  Mérida, Mexico

• Main Architect

  Gerardo Boyancé Ancona

• Architects in Charge

  Beatriz Bolio Aguilar, Andree Pasos Dzul

• Area

  505.07 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  David Cervera

+ 14

• Architects

  PLUG

• Location

  Mérida, Mexico

• Author Architects

  Román Cordero, Izbeth Mendoza

• Area

  130.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Román Cordero, David Matute

+ 26

• Architect

  FDZ Esquivel / Arquitectura

• Location

  Mérida, Mexico

• Architect in Charge

  Jorge Antonio Fernández Esquivel

• Interior Design

  Ynnel Cuevas Montañes, Andrea Farias Burgunder

• Area

  252.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographer

  Leo Espinosa

+ 18

• Architects

  TACO taller de arquitectura contextual.

• Location

  Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

• Project Team

  Carlos Patrón Ibarra, Alejandro Patrón Sansor, Ana Patrón Ibarra, Estefanía Rivero Janssen.

• Area

  180.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Leo Espinosa