ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/496202/ad-classics-los-manantiales-felix-candela Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:00:00 +0000 Michelle Miller https://www.archdaily.com/496202/ad-classics-los-manantiales-felix-candela This article was originally published on April 14, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

With the design for Los Manantiales, Felix Candela’s experimental form finding gave rise to an efficient, elegant, and enduring work of structural art. Comprised of four intersecting hypars, a strikingly thin roof surface creates a dramatic dining space. Built as Candela was establishing an international reputation as the foremost shell building, he demonstrated to the world his masterful combination of artistry and technical virtuoso.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/158000/ad-classics-cosmic-rays-pavilion-felix-candela Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Greg LeMaire https://www.archdaily.com/158000/ad-classics-cosmic-rays-pavilion-felix-candela The Cosmic Rays Pavilion represents one of the first experiments with parabolic structures.

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