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Albia Building / Landa + Martínez Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Albia is a twenty-floor office building located on a property between Antonio L. Rodriguez and Blvd. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, two high-velocity avenues in the west of Monterrey. Its structure is composed of visible concrete frames that are expressed on the facade as vertical mullions. The offices are located in a reflective glass volume, with a north-south orientation, on a quadruple height base.

Reforma Latino Tower / Landa + Martínez Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Reforma Latino is a 185-meter high office building on Mexico City’s iconic Reforma Avenue. Its structure consists of steel and concrete frames that are visible on the east and west façades, frame a penthouse and sustain a heliport. The building has four underground and thirteen above ground floors for parking, with thirty-four office floors. Open floor plans can be easily subdivided; elevators and services are grouped in a lineal module at the center and minimize the need for hallways.

Il Mercato / Landa + Martínez Arquitectos

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Il Mercato is a restaurant and entertainment center in Parque Centro, a new development in the city of Saltillo, Mexico. The building is organized around an enclosed patio and has broad windows and balconies towards Parque Centro’s entrance plaza and central park. The structure is an exposed concrete frame with brick walls; it brings together Saltillo’s industrial character and one of its surviving artisanal construction trades. For centuries, the city has been a brick production center in northern Mexico.

UIAC / Landa + Martínez Arquitectos

Alexandra Molinare — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Unidad de Innovación, Aprendizaje y Competitividad (UIAC) of the Universidad Iberoamericana at León is an academic building that houses workshops, classrooms and laboratories. Its structure consists of a series of identical concrete frames that contain a double height space. The frames have extensions at 45 degrees on the west facade and the roof; they work as both downspouts and brise-soleils that produce different lighting effects throughout the day. Inside, the main area has an atrium that runs along the building, with concrete slabs on the sides hanging from steel beams.

O Dos Vasconcelos – Hotel Habita Monterrey / Landa + Martínez Arquitectos

Alexandra Molinare — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:00 +0000

O Dos Vasconcelos is a mixed-use complex organized around a central, open-air public space with a circular plan. The parking area, the apartments and commercial spaces, and the hotel volume are all visible from the entrance level. The relation between the underground and the aboveground spaces, and the concentration of different functions in carefully crafted pieces, lends the complex a mechanical character --appropriate for a predominantly industrial city-- which reminiscent of the early work of James Stirling.