Mexico City

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• Architects

  Landa + Martínez Arquitectos

• Location

  Av. Paseo de la Reforma 296, Juárez, 06600 Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Sustainability

• Lead Architects

  Agustín Landa Vértiz

• Area

  968751.94 ft2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  The Raws, Jorge Vertiz

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• Architects

  JSa

• Location

  Plaza de La Ciudadela, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

• Category

  Library

• Design Team

  Javier Sánchez, Aisha Ballesteros, Jimena González-Sicilia, Juan Jesús Pérez, Gerardo Fonseca, Jorge González

• Artistic Participation

  Francisco Toledo, Instituto de artes graficas de Oaxaca

• Structural Project

  Hector Margain y Asociados

• Lighting

  Gustavo Avilés

• Client

  CONACULTA

• Area

  225.0 sqm

• Photography

  Courtesy of JSª Arquitectura

+ 27

• Architects

  Grupo Lateral Arquitectura y Construcción

• Location

  Calle Montes Urales, LoMontes Urales, Del. Miguel Hidalgo, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Architect in Charge

  Daniel Sampson Farji

• Area

  1400.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Camila Cossio

+ 19

• Architects

  ArquiPartners

• Location

  Ciudad de México, Mexico

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Architects in Charge

  Rubén Rodríguez Paredes, Omar Rodriguez Paredes, Diego Diaz Cebado, Marisol Dorantes Castro

• Area

  900.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Mauricio Salas + Cesar Castañedo

+ 27

• Architects

  Ezra Cherem Behar, Alan Cherem Hamui

• Location

  Córdoba 238, Col. Roma Norte, Del. Cuauhtémoc, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Library

• Architects in Charge

  Ezra Cherem Behar, Alan Cherem Hamui

• Collaborators

  Elias Cherem

• Structural Project

  Ing. Alfonso Chavez Mejia

• Lightning Project

  Luz + Forma

• Area

  20537.54 ft2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  LGM Studio - Luis Gallardo

+ 13

• Architects

  Arquitectura Sistémica

• Location

  Calle División del Nte. 65, Locaxco, 05330 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Apartments

• Architects in Charge

  Samantha Mendoza, Antonio Peña

• Design Team

  Regina Kuri, Camila Ureña

• Area

  4500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Onnis Luque

Although the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), south of Mexico City, is home to the well-known O’Gorman murals, it is, in fact, the campus itself, that is quite intriguing. Walking through UNAM, individuals find themselves in an architectural display of modernist buildings that date back 70 years, along with open courtyards, hidden walkways, and pavilions. Uniquely, the campus buildings have a little bit of everything: bold geometry, openness, abstraction, humanistic design, permeability with nature, decaying masonry walls, local lava rocks used as walls, and pavers throughout the campus.

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+ 31

• Architects

  Colonnier y Asociados

• Location

  Calle Río Lerma 232, Cuauhtémoc, 54076 Ciudad de Mexico, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Office buildings

• Author Architect

  Jean Michel Colonnier

• Design Team

  Oscar Osorio, Francisco Salazar, Elena Pérez, Martha Albor, Johanna Apolo, Domingo Granados, Ángel Rivero, Marco Monroy

• Cliente

  GRUPO MF - SALAME; REICHMANN INTERNATIONAL; FIBRA UNO

• Area

  141229.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Luis Gordoa, Agustín Garza, Frank Lynen

+ 28

• Architects

  CH2 arquitectos, JL Arquitectos

• Location

  Colonia del Valle, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Residential

• Design Team

  José León Pérez Ison, Antonio Chamorro, Victor Chamorro, Antonio Cárdenas, Samantha Mondragón, Felipe Montalvo, Verenice Pacheco

• Area

  1647.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Aldo García

The Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality Group has published details of Project Correl, a collaborative experiment to test the potential of virtual reality as a tool for design. The experiment is currently on display in the University Contemporary Art Museum (MUAC) in Mexico City, where it forms part of Zaha Hadid Architects’ “Design As Second Nature” exhibition.

In the exhibition, visitors have the chance to engage with Project Correl in real time, transported to a virtual environment to collaborate with each other on an ever-evolving structure. The design will be periodically captured and exhibited in the gallery as scaled 3D printed models to further demonstrate the design process encouraged by Correl.

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+ 11

• Architects

  Palma Estudio

• Location

  Escandón I Secc, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Author Architects

  Ilse Cardenas, Regina de Hoyos, Diego Escamilla, Juan Luis Rivera

• Design Team

  Tonatiuh Armenta

• Area

  35.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Luis Young

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• Architects

  Estudio Atemporal

• Location

  Lago Xochimilco 135, Anáhuac I Secc, 11320 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Architects in Charge

  Luciana de la garza, Paul Curuchet

• Construction

  Estudio Atemporal

• Area

  722.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Luis Gallardo LGM Studio

+ 26

• Architects

  Ludwig Godefroy Architecture

• Location

  Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

• Category

  Restaurant

• Architect in Charge

  Ludwig Godefroy

• Area

  538.1 ft2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Ramiro Chaves

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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.