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El Eco de un Pasillo / Mendiola Arregui

Andreas Luco — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:17:00 +0000

Ordinary architecture can define spaces that awaken deep emotions. According to Mathias Goeritz, the museum's access hallway is pure emotional expression.

Nube 7 Cafe / Luis Carbonell

Andreas Luco — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:47:00 +0000

The Nube 7 cafe has been operating since 2008 inside the Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo Museum, a cultural and art space in Mexico City designed by the renowned architect Teodoro González de León.

Londres 187 Building / CCA | Bernardo Quinzaños + Olga Romano

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Located on London Street in the Juárez neighborhood, the building integrates collective housing with ground-floor retail. The proposal maximizes the use of the lot through an organization of two volumes articulated by a central courtyard and a rear patio, ensuring natural light and ventilation.

El Mayab Sports and Cultural Center / Taller de Arquitectura Miguel Montor

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Context - The El Mayab Sports and Cultural Center emerges as part of the Urban Improvement Program (PMU), promoted by the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development, whose objective has been to intervene in territories with high social vulnerability through specific public infrastructure actions.

Juriquilla House / Estudio Mero

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000

In the middle of the quiet landscape north of Querétaro, Casa Juriquilla emerges as a home that materializes Mexico's rich cultural heritage through a contemporary and proactive lens. Designed by Estudio Mero, the structure is rigorously organized around a central courtyard, a vital core where endemic vegetation and the warmth of daily life converge.

Ash House / TACO taller de arquitectura contextual

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Casa Ceniza is a single-family home conceived as a massive geometric volume that protects itself from the street while creating a domestic landscape of courtyards, water, and vegetation within. Closed off to the exterior and open to interior gardens and courtyards, the house proposes an introspective architecture where spaces are gradually revealed along the journey.

Chapultepec Forest Scenic Garden / Michan Architecture + PARABASE

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In 2022, Michan Architecture, together with Parabase and Taller de Paisaje Entorno, won an international design competition for three new pavilions and a landscape project in Chapultepec Park, one of the largest and oldest parks in Latin America. Most of the mass of the project is generated by reusing the site’s own resources, respecting existing trees and minimizing waste.

Colibrí House / Estudio Libre MX

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Located in the south of Mexico City, this residential project was designed with the purpose of hosting gatherings and events—providing a space for family life and recreation—anchored by a lap pool as the guiding axis of the design.

Macana House / Taller Carlos Marín

Andreas Luco — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000

When we first visited the site, what struck us most was how, upon emerging from a small alley, a spectacular view of one of the slopes of the Tepozteco suddenly opened up. These mountainous formations, so characteristic of the region, become the visual backdrop of the land, and from that moment, we knew they had to be the protagonists of the project.

Mazatlan 160 Building / Francisco Pardo Arquitecto

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Mazatlán 160 is a mixed-use building —residential, hospitality, and commercial— located in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City. The architectural proposal embraces a contemporary language, building its identity through the honesty of materials and a rigorous proportional logic.

UH Infonavit Santa Fe Community Park / AMASA Estudio

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Located at the western edge of Mexico City, the project developed by AMASA Estudio in the INFONAVIT Santa Fe Housing Unit faced one of the most complex contexts within the set of interventions carried out in 2024. This unit presents a particular condition: having been built on a ravine area, the buildings are situated on uneven terrain, with considerable slopes that hinder both connectivity and accessibility among them.

Housing Unit Infonavit CTM Culhuacán Square / AMASA Estudio, Andrea López + Agustín Pereyra

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Of all the housing units built by Infonavit in Mexico City during the second half of the 20th century, the largest is Culhuacán, located in the southeast of the city, within the Coyoacán borough and close to the boundaries with Iztapalapa. This unit has approximately 15,000 homes. Its full name—Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM) Culhuacán—incorporates, on one hand, a reference to Culhuacán, one of the indigenous towns in the area, and on the other, a direct allusion to the welfare state project, which at that time was expressed through support for the working class. The construction of CTM Culhuacán began in 1974, with the goal of providing housing for more than one hundred thousand people, mostly from the expanding middle and working classes.

LAI House / BROISSIN

Andreas Luco — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Located on a steeply sloped site in the Lomas de Vista Hermosa neighborhood of Mexico City, Casa Tlapexco is a residential project that emerges from a deep dialogue with the natural topography. Built on a 678.85 m² plot, the architectural strategy embraces the site's downward gradient through a stepped volumetry that anchors the structure into the terrain, offering a fluid spatial descent across five levels—two above and three below street level.

Pavilion of the Reserve / HEMAA

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Nestled within Reserva Santa Fe, Pabellon de la Reserva emerges as a testament to a balanced way of life—an existence centered around the intimate embrace of nature, all conveniently situated just minutes away from the bustling metropolis of Mexico City.

UH INFONAVIT Iztacalco Housing Unit and Public Space / AMASA Estudio

Paula Pintos — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Since the mid-20th century, the capital of Mexico has begun a long tradition of building collective housing through the development of housing complexes. Today, approximately half of the residents living in Mexico City reside in a condominium regime. The city has around ten thousand housing units: housing complexes that share multi-family buildings, urban facilities, common areas, administrative services, and even postal codes.

Bar Cyprez / Studio LTMX

Andreas Luco — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Each element in the design of the new bar serves a dual purpose, becoming part of a larger system that responds to the basic functional needs of a commercial space. The main goal of this system is to provide the customer with the ability to close off and separate the bar from the rest of the spaces while keeping the overall operation intact.

PILARES Cuicuilco Community Center / TO + +UdeB Arquitectos + AGENdA Agencia de Arquitectura +

Andreas Luco — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000

The government of Mexico City issued an invitation for a design competition aimed at developing small community centers in different neighborhoods. The brief called for specific programs to be created based on the demographics, needs, and vocation of the local residents.

Alcázar de Toledo / Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

This luxury residential project enjoys a privileged location in Mexico City and peerless natural surroundings. The site has a very rugged topography so it was decided to integrate as far as possible the architecture to these natural formations, with the aim of respecting the environment and exploiting the extraordinary panoramic views of the city that can be seen between the vegetation.