As part of a program to improve the capital’s most disadvantaged areas, a small facility provides training and meeting spaces close to what is one of the largest penitenciaries in the country. Without shutting out the street, with which it engages th
The playful configuration of intertwined volumes in reddish tones poses a pattern of hollows and solids between shadows in the Mexican city of Tulum, in the Yucatan Peninsula. Separated by an elongated garden of native plants, the arrangement of 39 d
This sports facility is part of the production complex of the Mexican tool manufacturer Truper, used by its employees and their families. There are no other constructions around, and the complex tries to keep its volumes as imperceptible as possible,
The story of the Anahuacalli Museum begins in the early 1940s, when the painter Diego Rivera thought of erecting a depot for his collection of pre-Hispanic pieces that would be an artwork in and of itself, habitable and capable of generating a contin
In 2015, the joint proposal presented under the choral signature MXSI – the Barcelona studio of Mara Partida and Héctor Mendoza (Mendoza Partida), and Boris Bezan (BAX Studio) – and the local office SPRB Arquitectos, led by Carlos Rodríguez and Laura
In the Torón Reserve – a few kilometers from the small town of Mazunte, between Mermejita and Ventanilla beaches on the coast of the state of Oaxaca, facing the Pacific – the Mexico City firm led by Ignacio Urquiza built this residence fragmented int
Jojutla in the Mexican state of Morelos is the location of this community center envisioned as part of the plan to restructure the municipality’s main public buildings, damaged by an earthquake that shook the area on 19 September 2017. The original s
The firms Alejandro Medina Arquitectura, Reyes Ríos + Larraín arquitectos, Muñoz arquitectos, and Quesnel arquitectos have together raised this building in the historic center of Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán. Respecting the archite
REDBAAL (Latin American network of architecture biennials) has bestowed its Oscar Niemeyer Prize on Teopanzolco Cultural Center in Cuernavaca (Mexico), by Isaac Broid and Productora. In the second edition of the biennial prize, the jurors – Jean Pier
Known as the ‘Pearl of the Pacific,’ the port city of Mazatlán – in the state of Sinaloa, 21 kilometers south of the Tropic of Cancer – is one of Mexico’s leading touritst destinations. Humidity and heat most of the time, as well as the high degree o
In the city of Mérida, in Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), the firm Materia Arquitectónica — headed by Gustavo Carmona and Lisa Beltrán — is the author of the Quinta Montes Molina pavilion, silver medalist in the Cultura section of the 2nd Biennial of Arc
