Bogota: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  FP arquitectura

• Location

  Fontibón, Bogotá, Colombia

• Category

  Schools

• Architects in Charge

  Iván Forgioni, José Puentes

• Design Team

  Juan José López, Juan Felipe Mejía, Laura Muñeton, Daniela Núñez

• Area

  7917.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photography

  Alejandro Arango,

• Architects

  Obraestudio

• Location

  Bogota, Colombia

• Category

  Sustainability

• Lead Architects

  Arq. Juan Melo Lozano

• Design Team

  Bio.Mateo Hernández / Arq. Lorena González / Arq. Lucas Nieto / Arq. Juan Camilo Arias

• Area

  91493.24 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Daniel Segura, Andrés Valbuena, Jairo Llano

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• Architects

  Sestral S.A.

• Location

  Cra. 11 #79-52, Bogotá, Colombia

• Category

  Mixed Use Architecture

• Architect in Charge

  Antonio Aldea

• Area

  19800.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographer

  Jairo Llano

El Equipo de Mazzanti, led by Giancarlo Mazzanti, has developed a line of toys inspired by their playful Bosque de la Esperanza sports center on the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia. The first edition of the “We Play You Play” toy series inspired by the firm’s most recognizable architectural and social projects, the Bosque de la Esperanza toy set embodies Mazzanti’s ethos of “using the playful as a design tool.”

With more than 15 years of experience in architectural design, the Mazzanti team developed a special interest in using play as a method of involving and encouraging social behavior within the communities impacted by their designs. The Bosque de la Esperanza set therefore contains 16 modular pieces and 30 connectors, with complex geometries igniting a cognitive element, and creative challenge.

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• Architects

  TERRANUM

• Location

  Cra. 14 #93-68, Bogotá, Colombia

• Category

  Office buildings

• Architects in Charge

  VP DESARROLLO - TERRANUM

• Area

  18000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Llano Fotografía

Architect Mayerlly Cuta along with the architect and visual artist Carlos Alberto Hernández founded Urban Sketchers Bogotá," a worldwide movement of drawing that promotes the practice of drawing in Bogota streets, capturing real-time life in the city.

From October 24 to November 9, an exhibition was held in homage to architect Rogelio Salmona. According to Cuta, they sought to commemorate the architect 11 years after his death by drawing his present works in the city of Bogotá. "As managers, we began to draw and promote his works. Later converting them into an exhibition. The Colombian Society of Architects and the Rogelio Salmona Foundation joined the project, leading to the Drawing to Salmona Call. This call brought together more than 100 people and collected more than 300 drawings that came from different cities in the country and the world."

If you're an architecture aficionado, the Colombian capital of Bogota should be high on your list. The city's architecture contains bits and pieces from throughout the country's history, from colonial structures to classical designs from the time of the Republic.

If you're a first time visitor to Bogotá —or a native tourist in your own city— we recommend this architecture guide for the top 10 locations to capture the city's best works.

Bogota's modernization between 1940 and 1970 is featured in a wide array of books, magazines, and photo albums, as well as in the city's own public and private archives. Every one of these sources reveals a deliberate, as well as critical, approximation of how modern architecture reconfigured the city's center and brought together the new buildings and urban space with the already existing cityscape.

When analyzing the impact of photography from the street, it's impossible not to talk about Leo Matiz, Armando Matiz, and Hernán Díaz. These three photographers have captured the personalities, events, and urban life of Bogotá. Here, we've compiled some of their most noted works featuring the streets, plazas, crosswalks, and landmarks of Bogotá. Through their photography, modern heritage finds a place on the stage of collective memory, where architecture and urban spaces are the stars. 

In this edition of Bogotá in 10 photographs, we will come to know the legacy of Leo Matiz:

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• Architects

  taller de arquitectura de bogotá

• Location

  Cl. 202 #56-50, Bogotá, Colombia

• Category

  Extension

• Author Architects

  Daniel Bonilla y Marcela Albornoz

• Design Team

  Andrés Gutierrez, Adriana Hernández, David Kita, Rodrigo Montoya, Juliana Lozano, Mauricio Patiño, Cristian Echeverría

• Area

  2816.0 m2

• Project Year

  2009

• Photographs

  Rodrigo Dávila, Sergio Gómez

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• Architects

  Juan Manuel Hoyos Mora

• Location

  Jardín Botánico de Bogotá, Cl. 63 #6895, Bogotá, Colombia

• Category

  Park

• Area

  635.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

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• Architects

  Guillermo Fischer

• Location

  Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

• Category

  Renovation

• Collaborators architects

  Nelson Barrera, Nora Elena Restrepo, David Contreras

• Area

  1100.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Guillermo Fischer

Colombian graphic designer and creative director Camilo Monzón's Instagram account is not your average catalog of Bogotá's iconic architecture. 

Camilo explains that his particular way of capturing the city arose while he tried out his drone. "I realized that the tiles from nearby buildings showed me an unedited side of Bogotá that should be revealed and shown to everyone," he said in a conversation with ArchDaily en Español. "I think of it as rediscovering the city."

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• Architects

  Consorcio Bermúdez Arquitectos, Estudio Herreros

• Location

  Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

• Category

  Shopping centers

• Project Authors

  Juan Herreros, Daniel Bermúdez, Jens Richter

• Directors

  Ramón Bermúdez, Gonzalo Rivas, Stan Van der Maas

• Team

  Carmen Antón (eH), Juan Carlos Ardila , David Barbosa, Jaime Barrera , Julián Beltrán, Camilo Brito, David Caballero, Laura Dorado, María Franco, Raúl García, David Gómez, Airam González, Iván Guerrero, Andrés Gutiérrez, Sergio Jiménez, Víctor Lacima, Juan Fernando Martínez, Margarita Martínez, Ana María Noriega, Juan Camilo Ortegón, Mª Ángeles Peñalver, Abraham Piñate, Juan Reyes, María Ríus, Alberto Roa, Luis Ángel Rivera, Esteban Salcedo, Beatriz Salinas, Paula Sopó, Martha Sosa Dias, Catalina Venegas

• Area

  70000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Enrique Guzmán, Javier Callejas

Tackling the widespread issue of climate change, Universidad EAN (UEAN) in Bogotá, Colombia illustrates the same construction philosophy taught to the students in their new building under the title of ‘Project Legacy.' As the next generation fill the seats of the new auditorium they will be party to the very thinking that went behind the building, solidifying their knowledge as they get to experience it first-hand.

The architects, William McDonough + Partners, are no stranger to the cradle-to-cradle ethos that inspires their sustainable approach. The philosophy models the human industry on the processes within nature to maximise usage of materials for as long as possible – recovering and regenerating products. These perpetual cycles are a long-term solution to the dominant system that uses the cheapest materials in manufacturing.

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• Architects

  Arquitectura en Estudio

• Location

  Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

• Category

  Sustainability & Green Design

• Lead Architects

  Camilo Garavito, Carlos Núñez

• Interior Design

  Natalia Heredia

• Landscape

  Ramiro Olarte

• Area

  18277.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Llano Fotografía

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• Architects

  Daniel Bonilla + Marcela Albornoz

• Location

  Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

• Category

  University

• Area

  14016.0 m2

• Project Year

  2011

• Photographs

  Rodrigo Dávila